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"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets."
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"They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it."
Poetry
"I like poems that are complex."
Poems
"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."
Poet
"The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered."
Poems
"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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"In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read."
Youth
"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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"Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such."
Nature
"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."
Art
"But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me."
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"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
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"Poets wish to profit or to please."
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"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."
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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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"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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"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets."
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"Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence."
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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."
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"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."
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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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