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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."
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"The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember."
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"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."
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"Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together."
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"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
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"Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin."
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"Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind."
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"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
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"They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me."
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"It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets."
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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."
Poet
"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."
Man
"The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional."
Actor
"An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman."
Actor
"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."
Friendship
"Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow."
Islands
"You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice."
Justice
"A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles."
Gold
"I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out."
Love
"When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk."
Play
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