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I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.

— Laurence Olivier

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

— Philip Levine

Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?

— Jay-Z

But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.

— Norman MacCaig

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.

— Howard Nemerov

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

— George Henry Lewes

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

— W. H. Auden

Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.

— Jason Mraz

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!

— Jack Gleeson

✗Opposing Perspectives

There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

— Anne Stevenson