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«We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words»
«When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane.»
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
(Author)
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Food
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«Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.»
«What is it that escapes the observation of poets? What is that act women are incapable of doing? What will drunken people not prate? What will not a crow eat?»
«The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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«While pensive poets painful vigils keep - Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep»
«The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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«The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.»
«Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time»
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