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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. -- Plato
I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island. -- Thornton Wilder
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. -- Robert Frost
I love the 19th-century idea of the flaneur, the poet wandering through the streets. -- Tom Hodgkinson
I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet. -- Carl Rakosi
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. -- W. H. Auden
Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference. -- Mason Cooley
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. -- Philip James Bailey
She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away. -- Harry Chapin
Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman he loves! -- Samuel Lover
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. -- Amelia Barr
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. -- Rita Dove
When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love. -- Umberto Eco
The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race. -- Karl Shapiro
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. -- Hannah Arendt
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. -- Susan Stewart
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. -- Ellen Bass
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. -- Karl Philipp Moritz
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. -- Bob Balaban
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. -- Francesca Lia Block
Poets find truth by writing about what they love. -- Susan Cooper
Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it. -- Oscar Wilde
Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer. -- Woody Allen
Nations conquered and true love prevails, all encompassed in a poets tale. -- R.J. Craddock
Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away! -- Phyllis Bottome
I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. -- E. M. Forster
Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers. -- George Santayana
The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer. -- Stephen King
Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves. -- Marita Golden
My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection. -- Henry Rollins
Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine, Thou wilt not laugh at poets. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close. -- Stephen King
I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one -- Jessica Lange
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot. -- Robert Frost
And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist. -- Carl Sandburg
.. but all of a sudden theyâ??re poets, right, like thatâ??s all it takes â?? being in love. -- David Sedaris
Drew Dellinger is one of the most creative, courageous and prophetic poets of his generation. I love his spirit. Don't miss him! -- Cornel West
That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets. -- Tess Gerritsen
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. -- William Empson
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 -- Rita Dove
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. -- Reginald Horace Blyth
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. -- John Dryden
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. -- Daphne du Maurier
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. -- Honore de Balzac
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. -- Philip James Bailey
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. -- Stanislaw Lem
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. -- Bertrand Russell
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. -- Wendy C. Ortiz

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