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I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me.
— Sandra Cisneros
The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read the.
— Henry David Thoreau
Faith without works is as dead as a doornail.
— Millard Fuller
One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.
— Philip Larkin
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
— Sophie Swetchine
America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.
— Rebecca Harding Davis
The great poets are full of bullshit. Love has nothing on hatred's capacity to give a man purpose.
— Luke Scull
All great poets have been men of great knowledge.
— William C. Bryant
Good poets borrow, great poets steal
— T. S. Eliot
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
— Philip James Bailey
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
— John Drinkwater
There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
if you let something go and it doesn't come back to you, it was never really yours to begin with.
— Penelope Ward
I'd rather die fighting over great poets than over gods.
— Salman Rushdie
Great poets are great copy editors.
— Dejan Stojanovic
That imperial guard which poets and humanists mount in relay around any great memory.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
Lord, if you show me the way, I will follow You.
— Brother Andrew
Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.
— Sylvia Plath
Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.
— Marie Corelli
All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The grocery store poets do everything they can to encourage us in our willing suspension of disbelief.
— Michael Pollan
Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.
— Ellen J. Barrier
There are very few great poets in the world.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.
— Ian Fleming
The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.
— Henry David Thoreau
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— James Patterson
I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.
— Isaac Rosenberg
I know who the great poets are.
— Jack Kerouac