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21 " Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable. "
― Rabih Alameddine
22 " As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life. "
― Charles Baxter , The Feast of Love
23 " My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the real life and not of the little separate lives which we live as individuals — and have five hundred a year each of us and rooms of our own; if we have the habit of freedom and the courage to write exactly what we think; if we escape a little from the common sitting-room and see human beings not always in their relation to each other but in relation to reality; and the sky, too, and the trees or whatever it may be in themselves; if we look past Milton's bogey, for no human being should shut out the view; if we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women, then the opportunity will come and the dead poet who was Shakespeare's sister will put on the body which she has so often laid down. "
― Virginia Woolf , A Room of One's Own
24 " At the temple there is a poem called " Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it. "
25 " Nineteenth-century preacher Henry Ward Beecher's last words were " Now comes the mystery." The poet Dylan Thomas, who liked a good drink at least as much as Alaska, said, " I've had eighteen straight whiskeys. I do believe that's a record," before dying. Alaska's favorite was playwright Eugene O'Neill: " Born in a hotel room, and--God damn it--died in a hotel room." Even car-accident victims sometimes have time for last words. Princess Diana said, " Oh God. What's happened?" Movie star James Dean said, " They've got to see us," just before slamming his Porsche into another car. I know so many last words. But I will never know hers. "
26 " A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be all right. you’ve made it past Dead Man’s Curve and you’re out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not. "
― Haruki Murakami , Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
27 " So I don’t think I’ll make Poet Laureate,but I swear I’m not twisted and bitter,If finely-wrought talentsdon’t weigh in the balance,I can always write haiku on Twitter. "
― Rosy Cole , The Twain: Poems of Earth and Ether
28 " A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings. "
29 " Language is artificial, but our feelings are natural, inner, and universal. There are many languages, but feelings are the same for everyone. We can only describe it in different ways. A poet tries to sing the song of these feelings in different tunes with different music mixing with the inner emotions of the reader. "
― Debasish Mridha
30 " We cannot see the best things in life, we can only feel them. A poet tries to describe those indescribable feelings in a language of emotions and inner perceptions. "
31 " A poet is an unpaid laborer of a mine where he digs into the mountain to find rough diamonds. He then polishes them with his imagination and emotion to share with everyone. "
32 " A poet is an artist that paints pictures by mixing thought, imagination, and emotion with words. "
33 " A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader’s mind with the colors of emotion. "
34 " You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search. "
― Rick Riordan
35 " A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called " The Road Less Traveled" , describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn't hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is dead. "
36 " To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. "
― Robert Frost
37 " A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. "
― W.H. Auden , The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948
38 " A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. "
― Randall Jarrell
39 " A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains. "
― Criss Jami , Killosophy
40 " Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet. "
― Jess Walter , The Financial Lives of the Poets