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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."
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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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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
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"The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember."
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"I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen."
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"There are very few great poets in the world."
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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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"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."
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"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."
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"Poets wish to profit or to please."
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"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
"And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious."
Poetry
"Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history."
History
"It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things."
Life
"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
"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
"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
"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
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