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"Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin."
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"They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me."
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"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."
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"I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself."
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"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."
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"Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together."
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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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"Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin."
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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, like whores, are only hated by each other."
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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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"Let us not doubt, brother. Let us not pry into the holy mysteries of the hen-coop with simian fingers."
Mystery
"I shouldn't have gone out so far, fish, he said. "Neither for you nor for me. I'm sorry, fish."
Emotion
"When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write."
Writing
"There isnt always an explanation for everything."
Mystery
"He always thought of the sea as 'la mar' which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fishermen, those who used buoys as floats for their lines and had motorboats, bought when the shark livers had brought much money, spoke of her as 'el mar' which is masculine.They spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy. But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought."
Nature
"I wonder. Of course maybe that isn't what they figure to do. Maybe they aren't going to do any such thing. But it's natural that's what they would do and I heard that word."
Curiosity
"Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?"
Romance
"Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine."
Creativity
"His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred."
Time
"The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green."
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