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"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."

"It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets."

"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."

"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."

"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."

"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
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"Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow."

"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."

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."

"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."

"When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk."
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