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  1. Gustave Flaubert _ Madame Bovary

    Not a lawyer but carries within him the debris of a poet.
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  2. Howard Zinn _ A People's History of the

    The poet Archibald MacLeish, then an Assistant Secretary of State, spoke critically of what he saw in the postwar world: "As things are now going, the peace we will make, the peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace, in brief . . . without moral purpose or human interest. . . .
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  3. Archibald MacLeish _ Collected Poems, 1917-1982

    And here face down beneath the sunAnd here upon earth's noonward heightTo feel the always coming onThe always rising of the night
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  4. Kate Atkinson _ A God in Ruins

    Was there a poet who written about skylarks?
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  5. Patricia Highsmith _ Carol

    Carol looked at her. "How do you become a poet?""By feeling things - too much, I suppose," Therese answered conscientiously.
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  6. Jeanette Winterson _ Sexing the Cherry

    Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
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  7. Bijou Hunter _ Damaged and the Beast

    Laughing behind my hand, I followed him out to his motorcycle. "I like to think I'm hot enough that I don't need to flirt well." "Do you? Fortunately, I agree. In fact, this time when you walk in front of me and think I'm checking out your ass, it'll be true." "Cooper, you have such a way with words. A real poet." "Don't I know it," he said, sliding on his bike.
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  8. Hermann Hesse _ Strange News from Another Star

    And while he compared all these things which he was seeing with his eyes to the mental pictures he had painted of them in his homesickness, it became clear to him that he was, after all, destined to be a poet, and he saw that in poets' dreams reside a beauty and enchantment that one seeks in vain in the things of the real world.
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  9. Ian Fleming _ Goldfinger

    I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.
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  10. Libba Bray _ The Diviners

    Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.
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  11. Anne Carson _ Grief Lessons: Four Plays by

    I will not stop singingthe Muses who set me dancing.
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  12. Anne Carson _ Antigonick

    There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the other passengers scurried about the sinking ship trying to save their possessions, the poet stood idle. When questioned, he declared, mecum mea sunt cuncta: everything that is me is with me.
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