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"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets."
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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."
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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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"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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"I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant."
Culture
"Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world."
Poetry
"And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet."
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"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."
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"I like poems that are little games."
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"Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding."
Poetry
"But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most."
Love
"I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry."
Poetry
"The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it."
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"But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me."
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