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“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”
Oscar Wilde
“Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
“God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us”
Peter Antenberg
“I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.”
Bob Dylan
“What is it that escapes the observation of poets? What is that act women are incapable of doing? What will drunken people not prate? What will not a crow eat?”
Chanakya
“Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.”
Socrates
“Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand”
Plato