- Syrian Armed Forces (Wikipedia)
The Syrian Arab Armed Forces (SAAF; Arabic: القوات المسلحة العربية السورية, romanized: al-Quwwāt al-Musallaḥah al-ʿArabīyah as-Sūrīyah) are the military forces of the Syrian Arab Republic. They consist of the Syrian Army, Syrian Air Force, Syrian Navy, Syrian Air Defense Force, and paramilitary forces, such as the National Defence Forces. According to the Constitution of Syria, the President of Syria is the Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces. Minister of Defense holds the position of Deputy Commander-in-chief of the Army and Armed Forces.
- Allen Ginsberg
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Elizabeth Siddal
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
Émile Zola, Letter to Paul Cézanne (16 April 1860)- Emily Brontë
- Emily Dickinson
- Jane Roberts
- Jim Morrison
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Lewis Carroll
For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.
Lord Byron, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron by Thomas Medwin (1823)I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.
Michael Faraday- Oscar Wilde
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
Robert GravesA poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988)- Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson
- Theodore Roethke
- Thomas Gray
- William Blake
- William Shakespeare