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Poets are wiser than anyone because they’re the only people who have the guts to think and feel at the same time.

— Fritz Leiber The Big Time (1958)

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And the mighty are great worriers and spend much time preventing anything that troubles their peace of mind.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)

I thought of how people are like planets—lonely little forts of mind with immense black distance barring them off from each other.

Night's Black Agents (1947)

Women have power over men almost as great as gods do.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)

To Space-Age man, every mystery is a greed-magnet.

The Silver Eggheads (1962)

Too much good luck was always dangerous.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.

T. S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity...but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

George Chapman Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Michael Faraday

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