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• The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

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• I think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.

  Bob Dylan

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• I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

  Bob Dylan

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• A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.

  Bob Dylan

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• At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

  Plato

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• I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

  Thornton Wilder

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• To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

  Robert Graves

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• A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.

  René Char

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• A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.

  René Char

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• No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• Poets have a license to lie.

  Pliny the Younger

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