“- Constance Petersen: I think the greatest harm done the human race has been done by the poets.
- Anthony Edwardes: Oh, poets are dull boys, most of them, but not especially fiendish.
- Constance Petersen: They keep filling people's heads with delusions about love... writing about it as if it were a symphony orchestra or a flight of angels.”
Poets quotes
22 poets quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines-
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“You Russians think of yourselves as poets, but perhaps you're just touchy.”
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“Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.”
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“The Doors? Jim Morrison? He's a drunken buffoon posing as a poet.”
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“Maybe in a past life I was a poet - or an artist.”
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“I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.”
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“In a poets pocket you often find the product of an active imagination.”
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“Now, I know Shakespeare's a dead white guy, but he knows his shit, so we can overlook that.”
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“If your going through some shit in your life chances are somebody else has gone through the same thing before ya. And they've written about it. Some poet or philosopher has been through the same type of crap, and they've written about it. And when you find that poem or piece of writing. You think bloody hell this bastard has just summed it all...” (continue) (continue reading)
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“We're very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel, they're like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They're two distinct types of visionaries, it's like fire and ice, basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.”
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