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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."
"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."
"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."
"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."
"Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin."
"I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from."
"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."
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"In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them."
"My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence."
"Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such."
"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."
"For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative."
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