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Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the gypsies. (Quote by - Gerald Brenan)
Poets are sultans, if they had their will: For every author would his brother kill. (Quote by - Roger Boyle)
A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. (Quote by - Randall Jarrell)
Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard; To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, asked ages more. (Quote by - William Cowper)
There is a pleasure in poetic pains, Which only poets know. (Quote by - William Cowper)
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him. (Quote by - Dylan Thomas)
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. (Quote by - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux)
There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature. (Quote by - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton)
O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot)
Poetry is not a profession, it's a destiny. (Quote by - Mikhail Dudan)