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“The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem."”
Robert Penn Warren quotes
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“Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.”
Louis Untermeyer quotes
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“It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.”
R. H. Coase quotes
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“The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.”
Mark van Doren quotes (American Writer and Educator, 1894-1972)
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“Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.”
Eli Khamarov quotes
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“The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.”
Arthur Miller quotes (American Playwright, 1915-2005)
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“To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet”
Eugene Delacroix quotes (Greatest French Romantic painter, 1798-1863)
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“What this country needs is a great poem. John Brown's Body was a step in the right direction. I've read it once, and I'm reading it again. But it's too long to do what I mean. You can't thrill people in 300 pages.”
Herbert Hoover quotes (American President, 1874-1964)
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“The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.”
Jacques Maritain quotes
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“In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.”
Muriel Rukeyser quotes (American Writer, 1913-1980)
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