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The poet's function is to describe, not the thing that has happened, but a kind of thing that might happen... Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
Aristotle

One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.
William Blake

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosoher.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader. For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew.
Robert Frost

Barefaced poverty drove me to writing verses.
Horace

A rhymer and a poet are two things.
Ben Jonson

If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.
Henry Miller

The poet is a reporter interviewing his own heart.
Christopher Morley

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Plato

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.
Oscar Wilde

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