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POETS: No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher. (Harley Coleridge, English poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher who was the eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1796-1849)
POETS: All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, U.S. poet and educator whose works include Paul Revere's Ride, The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline, 1807-1882)
POETS: Every man is a poet when he is in love. (Plato, Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, and founder of the Academy in Athens, c. 428/427 – 348/347 B.C.E.)
POETS: The poet is the priest of the invisible. (Wallace Stevens, U.S. modernist poet and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems, 1879-1955)
POETS: Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public. (George Santayana, U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)