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• The degree in which a poet’s imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

  George Santayana

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• Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

  George Orwell

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• Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond – had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.

  Paul Muldoon

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• Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

  Paul Muldoon

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• They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn’t matter; certainly, not to me.

  Tom Glazer

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• Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

  Edmund Waller

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• Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

  Edmund Waller

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• Poets are born, not paid.

  Addison Mizner

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• Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.

  Bill Alexander

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• I don’t know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets – the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from.

  Robert Adamson

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• He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really – to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn’t very encouraging because, well, they weren’t getting far were they?

  Robert Adamson

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• Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he’s hardly ever mentioned.

  Robert Adamson

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• A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

  Diane Ackerman

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• Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

  Philip James Bailey

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• Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

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• Poets are born, not made.

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• 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.

  Bill Cosby

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• Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

  Eli Khamarov

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• The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

  T. S. Eliot

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• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

  T. S. Eliot

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