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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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"They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me."
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"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."
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"Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam."
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"There are very few great poets in the world."
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"Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence."
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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."
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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."
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"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
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"Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other."
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"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
Life
"You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget."
Memory
"The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help."
Time
"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude."
Solitude
"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."
People
"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."
Anger
"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."
People
"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."
Books
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."
Poetry
"Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen."
Wisdom
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