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"Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind."
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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 can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."
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"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."
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"I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe."
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"Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot."
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"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."
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"I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way."
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"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets."
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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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"For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties."
Art
"Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents."
Excess
"Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes."
Accident
"And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious."
Poetry
"Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast."
Work
"Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history."
History
"He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form."
May
"When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble."
Poet
"The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?"
Poetry
"It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things."
Life
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