Michael Allyn Wells: thoughts on poets

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Friday, December 03, 2010

Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.

~ Pablo Neruda

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments.

The intervals are the tough things. ~Robert Frost

A poet must leave traces of his passage,

not proof. ~ Rene Char

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers. ~ Malcolm De Chazal

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones

who write in words. ~ John Fowles

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods. ~ Socrates