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"Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other."
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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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"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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"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."
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"Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before."
Love
"Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business."
Business
"Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate."
Debt
"Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other."
Poet
"Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one."
Being
"I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better."
Man
"Women serve but to keep a man from better company."
Woman
"Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it."
Beauty
"Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly."
Being
"Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men."
Men
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