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“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
― John Steinbeck

“He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.”
― Jean Cocteau

“The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds
Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day;
But on the ground, among the hooting crowds,
He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs Du Mal