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• For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
  -- Michael Drayton (1563-1631) -- To Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poesy...
• Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal. ELIOT
• And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.
  -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809-1861) -- A Vision of Poe...
• Poets make better lay
• The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.
  -- Stephen Spende...
• LAUREL, n. The _laurus_, a vegetable dedicated to Apollo, and formerly defoliated to wreathe the brows of victors and such poets as had influence at court.
  (_Vide supra._) -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.
  -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), III, Reading...
• CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance -- against whom or what does not clearly appea
  everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance....
• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. -- T.S. Elio