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"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."
"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."
"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."
"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."
"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
Explore more quotes by Richard Burton
"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."
"Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow."
"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."
"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."
"How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles."
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