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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. -- Alfred de Musset
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. -- Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family. -- Gustave Flaubert
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. -- George Sand
The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture. -- Salvatore Quasimodo
Scientist alone is true poet. -- Allen Ginsberg
The true poet dreams being awake. -- Charles Lamb
The true poem is the poet's mind. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions. -- Heinrich Heine
The true philosopher and the true poet are one, -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear. -- Bryant H. McGill
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true. -- William Shenstone
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature. -- Novalis
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter. -- Jean Cocteau
Just because a poet said something didn't mean it was true, only that it sounded good. -- Janet Fitch
James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre -- Michael Nesmith
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it. -- J. D. Salinger
All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful. -- Wilfred Owen
A poet must discover that it's his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed. -- Jim Harrison
Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. -- Celia Thaxter
It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician. -- Karl Weierstrass
What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence. -- Henry Fielding
The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true. -- W. H. Auden
It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry. -- Gaston Bachelard
I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet. -- Andrew Motion
The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed. -- William Butler Yeats
Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that. -- Allen Ginsberg
The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set. -- Jacob Grimm
Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all the contradictions within, and lets the reader draw his own conclusions. -- Steven Saylor

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