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"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
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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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"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."
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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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"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets."
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"The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them."
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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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"Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam."
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"Poets wish to profit or to please."
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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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"The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."
Morality
"We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God."
Faith
"Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate."
Hope
"Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories - cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief, but purely painful."
Tragedy
"Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life."
Life
"The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school."
Politics
"Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality."
Romance
"The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic, it was not a place of myths allegorised or dissected or explained or explained away. It was a place of dreams come true."
Inspirational
"One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak."
Reflection
"St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, 'I have understood every page I ever read'."
Knowledge
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