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"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets."

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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."

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"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity."

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"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty."

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"All students can learn."

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"I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter."

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"If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them."

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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."

"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."

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

"Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam."

"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."

"Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence."

"Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin."

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

"When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble."

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"The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people."

"Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump."

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