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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 that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."
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"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."
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"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be 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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"Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other."
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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 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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"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
"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
"The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?"
Poetry
"Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history."
History
"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
"When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble."
Poet
"It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things."
Life
"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
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