"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets."

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"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets."

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"I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from."

Robert Adamson, Scottish Philosopher

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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."

David Antin, American Poet

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"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."

James Broughton, American Director

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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."

Roger McGough, British Poet

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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."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

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"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."

Isaac Rosenberg, English Poet

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"The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence."

Brian Harris, American Lawyer

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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."

Diane Wakoski, American Poet

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"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."

Kenneth Koch, American Poet

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"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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"In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read."

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"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."

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"I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that."

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"I like poems that are complex."

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"For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative."

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"The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all."

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"The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work."

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"In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them."

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"I like poems that are little games."

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