Poets
- James Thomson (poet) (1700–1748), Scottish poet and playwright, author of The Seasons and Rule, Britannia!"
- James Thomson (weaver poet) (1763–1832), Scottish poet
- James Thomson (B.V.) (1834–1882), Scottish poet, author of The City of Dreadful Night
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“He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)
“nor till the poets among us can be
literalists of
the imagination—above
insolence and triviality and can present
for inspection, ‘imaginary gardens with real toads in them’,
shall we have”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
“Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.”
—Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)
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