“Oh, what company good poets are!”
José Martí (1853–1895) Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader
Longfellow (1882)
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“I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Interview http://www.expectingrain.com/dok/int/shelton1978.07.29.html with Robert Shelton, Melody Maker (29 July 1978)
“Oh for a poet - for a beacon bright”
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) American poet
Opening line of Sonnet Children of the Night 1897 edition kindle ebook ASIN B004UJKLY2
“I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Bob Dylan Interview http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/65-aug.htm by Nora Ephron & Susan Edmiston (1965)
Anne Brontë book Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
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Context: p>All for myself the sigh would swell,
The tear of anguish start;
I little knew what wilder woe
Had filled the Poet's heart.I did not know the nights of gloom,
The days of misery;
The long, long years of dark despair,
That crushed and tortured thee.</p
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Source: http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/65-aug.htm Bob Dylan Interview
Lope De Vega (1562–1635) Spanish playwright and poet
De poetas no digo: buen siglo es éste. Muchos están en ciernes para el año que viene; pero ninguno hay tan malo como Cervantes ni tan necio que alabe a don Quijote.
Letter dated August 14, 1604; cited from Nicolás Marín (ed.) Cartas (Madrid: Clásicos Castalia, 1985) p. 68. Translation by Ilsa Barea, from Sebastià Juan Arbó Cervantes: Adventurer, Idealist, and Destiny's Fool (London: Thames and Hudson, 1955) p. 204.
“I am the poor man's poet; because I am poor myself and I have known what it is to be in love. Not being able to pay them in presents, I pay my mistresses in poetry.”
Pauperibus vates ego sum, quia pauper amavi;
Cum dare non possem munera, verba dabam.
Ovid book Ars amatoria
Book II, lines 165–166 (tr. J. Lewis May)
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
T.S. Eliot book The Sacred Wood
Source: "Philip Massinger", a biographical essay in The Sacred Wood (1920)