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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."
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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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"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."
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"I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out."
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"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."
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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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"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
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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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"Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind."
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"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
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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."
People
"Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen."
Wisdom
"I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter."
Creativity
"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude."
Solitude
"You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget."
Memory
"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
"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
Life
"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."
Courage
"I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends."
Friendship
"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning."
Optimism
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