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

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

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"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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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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"Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot."

Edmund Waller, English Poet

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"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."

Helen Dunmore, British Poet

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"It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets."

Dougray Scott, Scottish Actor

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"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."

John Barton, Canadian Poet

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"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 like poems that are complex."

Poems

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

Youth

"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."

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"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."

Poet

"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."

Hearing

"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

"There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory."

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"It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose."

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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."

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