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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a c

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poets language at that point in history, and so its even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that. – Diane Wakoski

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The poet is like the prince of clouds
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Exiled on the ground in the midst of jeers,
His giant wings prevent him from walking. – Charles Baudelaire

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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. – George Sand, 1851

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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. – Robert Frost

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