A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. – Edmond de Goncourt
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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into ones soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. – John Keats
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. – Walter Pater
If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there – not because youve done a comedy performance but because youre talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul. – Roger McGough
Modeling, for me, was not fulfilling. I didnt see the point – although I was able to travel a great deal. I lived in Italy, Germany, and Spain, but I wasnt devoted to it. – Tom Welling
