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Letter "P" » Poets
«Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.»
Author: Alphonse Daudet
| About:
Poets
«...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.»
«Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love»
«Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.»
«Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other»
«Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions»
Author: William E. Gladstone
(Prime Minister, Statesman)
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Mediocrity,
Poets,
Writers
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formerly, rarest, sensibly
«Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.»
«Poets are born, not made»
«Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one»
«Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.»
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