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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."

"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."

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

"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."

"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."

"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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"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."

"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."

"I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter."

"You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget."

"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."

"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."
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