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61 " I used to be a poet.
My words were traded in marketplaces like pieces of gold.
Merchants bought my verses for as much as they paid for saffron and Indian jade.

Now I am old...
drunk on wine and candle fumes.
Alone in this barren room, I speak my psalms to the night air
so as to entertain moths before they go off to die.
I used to be a poet
and my words were gold. "

― Roman Payne

62 " He was a poet -oh all men are when they're in love. "

63 " ...so you have found me and would know the tale. When a poet speaks of truth to another poet, waht hope has truth? Let me ask this, then. DOes one find memory in invention? Or will you find invention in memory? Wich bows in servitude befor the other? Will the measure of greatness be weighed solely in details? Perhaps so, if details make up the full weft of the world, if themes are nothing more than the coomposite of lists perfectly ordered and unerring rendered; and if I should kneel before invention, as if it were memory made perfect. "

― Steven Erikson

64 " Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth. "

― Robert Graves , The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth

65 " I, for instance, was triumphant over everyone; everyone, of course, was in dust and ashes, and was forced spontaneously to recognise my superiority, and I forgave them all. I was a poet and a grand gentleman, I fell in love; I came in for countless millions and immediately devoted them to humanity, and at the same time I confessed before all the people my shameful deeds, which, of course, were not merely shameful, but had in them much that was " sublime and beautiful" something in the Manfred style. Everyone would kiss me and weep (what idiots they would be if they did not), while I should go barefoot and hungry preaching new ideas and fighting a victorious Austerlitz against the obscurantists. Then the band would play a march, an amnesty would be declared, the Pope would agree to retire from Rome to Brazil; then there would be a ball for the whole of Italy at the Villa Borghese on the shores of Lake Como, Lake Como being for that purpose transferred to the neighbourhood of Rome; then would come a scene in the bushes, and so on, and so on — as though you did not know all about it? "

66 " Being a poet one confronts the limitation of language, how can the spirit be revealed under any restrictions. "

67 " To be a poet is a love affair, not a desire to dare. "

68 " Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust? "

― Neil Gaiman , The Graveyard Book

69 " Darkness is the womb from which a poet is born. "

70 " It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world. "

― Sanober Khan

71 " Surely there is a knowing behind it all. There is a teacher, an expresser, a creator, an artist perhaps, a poet certainly that has designed and presented all of the clues that we need to navigate life with some degree of grace, and perhaps with a greater degree of happiness than we now have. "

― , The Nature of Things - Navigating Everyday Life with Grace

72 " I'm a poet who has lost his words." He looks across the street, but not before I catch the dull glint of shame in his eyes." Where did you lose them?" I ask, gentling my tone.He turns back to me. When he speaks, his voice is so small that I have to lean closer to hear it. " The same place I lost myself. "

73 " There is hardly a limit to the knowledge and sympathy a man may have in respect of the finest things, and yet be a fool. Sympathy is not harmony. A man may be a poet even, and speak with the tongue of an angel, and yet be a very bad fool. "

― George MacDonald , A Daughter's Devotion

74 " Are you just a car salesman or are you a poet too?” “I've never been accused of poetry before. "

― Robert Charles Wilson , A Bridge of Years

75 " Never durst a poet touch a pen to write
Until his ink was tempered with love's sighs. "

― William Shakespeare , Love's Labour's Lost

76 " Every time a poet is about to write, every time the open their mouth to say something, they express their inner world and tell of their own feelings, thoughts, beliefs, and opinions, unless they are deliberately pursuing fantasies which contrast with their beliefs, opinions, thoughts, and the point of view. "

― M. Fethullah Gülen , Speech and Power of Expression: On Language, Esthetics, and Belief

77 " In the beginning was the word, and primitive societies venerated poets second only to their leaders. A poet had the power to name and so to control; he was, literally, the living memory of a group or tribe who would perpetuate their history in song; his inspiration was god given and he was in effect a medium. "

― Kevin Crossley-Holland , The Norse Myths

78 " You don't have to be a poet to express you feelings to her, just say whats in your mind and she will relate. "

79 " If you should see/a man/walking down a crowded street/ talking aloud/ to himself don't run/in the opposite direction but run toward him/for he is a poet! You have nothing to fear/from a poet but the truth "

80 " With you as an inspiration, a painter will create his best painting, a writer will write his best literature and a poet will create his best poetry. "

― Amit Kalantri , I Love You Too