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is a bad poet who is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. T. S. Eliot

is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm and arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm and arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland. (Kahlil Gibran)

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.

. . . for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. (Plato)

The poet is a madman lost in adventure. Paul Verlaine

is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.

is a person who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

is a professional maker of verbal objects.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

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