I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet. Votes: 1
Carl Rakosi
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Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. Votes: 1
Philip James Bailey
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She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away. Votes: 1
Harry Chapin
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Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman he loves! Votes: 1
Samuel Lover
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The most important American love poet in living memory, and certainly one of the most important American poets tout court, Robert Creeley was born in 1926 and raised in eastern Massachusetts. Votes: 1
Susan Stewart
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So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets. Votes: 1
Ellen Bass
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I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors. Votes: 1
Jandy Nelson
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I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a while. I just love the way people threw words around like they were painting. Votes: 1
Ric Ocasek
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Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country. Votes: 1
Karl Philipp Moritz
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My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative. Votes: 1
Bob Balaban
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I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence. Votes: 1
Francesca Lia Block
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When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected - and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms. Votes: 1
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as 'love' and as 'guv' - a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while. Votes: 1
James Fenton
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It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all. Votes: 1
Jane Campion
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul. Votes: 1
Lady Gregory
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If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph. Votes: 1
Philip Sidney
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Poets find truth by writing about what they love. Votes: 0
Susan Cooper
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Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it. Votes: 0
Oscar Wilde
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Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer. Votes: 0
Woody Allen
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Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame. Votes: 0
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. Votes: 0
E. M. Forster
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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away! Votes: 0
Phyllis Bottome
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Nations conquered and true love prevails, all encompassed in a poets tale. Votes: 0
R.J. Craddock
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love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers. Votes: 0
George Santayana
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The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer. Votes: 0
Stephen King
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Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves. Votes: 0
Marita Golden
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My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection. Votes: 0
Henry Rollins
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Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine, Thou wilt not laugh at poets. Votes: 0
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close. Votes: 0
Stephen King
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I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one Votes: 0
Jessica Lange
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Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can. Votes: 0
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot. Votes: 0
Robert Frost
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Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference. Votes: 0
Mason Cooley
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And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist. Votes: 0
Carl Sandburg
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.. but all of a sudden theyâre poets, right, like thatâs all it takes â being in love. Votes: 0
David Sedaris
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Drew Dellinger is one of the most creative, courageous and prophetic poets of his generation. I love his spirit. Don't miss him! Votes: 0
Cornel West
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There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets. Votes: 0
Tess Gerritsen
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I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been. Votes: 0
William Empson
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In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things Votes: 0
Rita Dove
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In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things. Votes: 0
Rita Dove
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The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets. Votes: 0
Reginald Horace Blyth
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare. Votes: 0
John Dryden
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I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say. Votes: 0
Daphne du Maurier
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. Votes: 0
Hannah Arendt
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing. Votes: 0
Honore de Balzac
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Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers. Votes: 0
Philip James Bailey
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The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that Finis vitae sed non amoris , is a lie, useless and not even funny. Votes: 0
Stanislaw Lem
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I have sought love because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven the saints and poets have imagined. Votes: 0
Bertrand Russell
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I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers - poets and memoirists especially. Votes: 0
Wendy C. Ortiz
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