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    They best can judge a poet's worth,
    Who oft themselves have known
    The pangs of a poetic birth
    By labours of their own.

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God's prophets of the Beautiful,
These Poets were.

God's prophets of the Beautiful,
These Poets were.

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Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared,
And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard;
To carry nature read more

Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared,
And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard;
To carry nature lengths unknown before,
To give a Milton birth, asked ages more.

by William Cowper Found in: Poets Quotes,
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Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

by Eli Khamarov Found in: Poets Quotes,
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He koude songes make and well endite.

He koude songes make and well endite.

by Geoffrey Chaucer Found in: Poets Quotes,
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And spare the poet for his subject's sake.

And spare the poet for his subject's sake.

by William Cowper Found in: Poets Quotes,
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Sure there are poets which did never dream
Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream
Of Helicon; read more

Sure there are poets which did never dream
Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream
Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose
Those made not poets, but the poets those.

by Sir John Denham Found in: Poets Quotes,
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Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name,
But England's Milton equals both in fame.

Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name,
But England's Milton equals both in fame.

by William Cowper Found in: Poets Quotes,
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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit
Of poets triumphs over it.

Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit
Of poets triumphs over it.

by Abraham Cowley Found in: Poets Quotes,
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Who all in raptures their own works rehearse,
And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.

Who all in raptures their own works rehearse,
And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.

by Charles Churchill Found in: Poets Quotes,
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