One day you may become an ex-prime minister, but you will never become an ex-poet!

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The poetry of earth is never dead.
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To a poet every curve of her was a well place word.
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The right poem finds us exactly when it needs to.
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To a poet, the broken flowers bloom the brightest.
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Put a girl in moonlight and tell only truths and every man becomes a poet.
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Poetry is composing, you are writing words to move the world like music.
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Poetry, is a life long war waged against ineffable beauty.
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Poets are fools until they are kings.
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Poets are souls at war with words from battles waged within.
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My poet’s heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.
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My poetry is a declaration of war, not an exordium to defeat. It is not the defeated soldier’s drumbeat of despair, but the fighting warrior’s will to win. It is not the de- spirited voice of dejection but the stirring shout of victory.
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What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can’t live with them, or without them.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.