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Letter "P" » Poets
«Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.»
«Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot»
«Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Poets
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differently, handwriting, tie, unravel, unraveled, unravels
«Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?»
«Such were the notes thy once loved poet sung, Till death untimely stopped his tuneful tongue»
«Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.»
Author: Bill Cosby
(Actor, Comedian, Producer)
| About:
Children,
Immortality,
Poets
| Keywords:
all out
«Poets treat their experiences shamelessly; they exploit them»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Experience,
Poets
| Keywords:
exploit, exploits, shamelessly
«Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience; which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one»
«Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
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Poets
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legislator, legislators, unacknowledged
«Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.»
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