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"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."
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"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
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"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets."
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"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
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"Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets."
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"There are very few great poets in the world."
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"Poets are born, not paid."
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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
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"I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out."
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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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"I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie."
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"The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all."
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"I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry."
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"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets."
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"There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory."
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"The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work."
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"But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most."
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"But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way."
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"Poetry is composing for the breath."
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"Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world."
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"Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers."
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