982 Quotes About Poet




  • Author Robert Burns
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    My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;A-chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.

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  • Author Vladimir Nabokov
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    I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet.

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  • Author Hermann Hesse
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    And while he compared all these things which he was seeing with his eyes to the mental pictures he had painted of them in his homesickness, it became clear to him that he was, after all, destined to be a poet, and he saw that in poets' dreams reside a beauty and enchantment that one seeks in vain in the things of the real world.

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