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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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"My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover."
Father
"Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden."
Age
"I ended up performing on a full time basis and I never got to Julliard at all."
Time
"Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music."
Family
"I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these."
College
"I taught myself to drive. I hope that the child in me never dies."
Hope
"When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music."
Music
"For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them."
People
"I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it."
Poetry
"I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since."
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"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
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"Poets wish to profit or to please."
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"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."
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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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"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets."
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"Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence."
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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."
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"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."
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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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"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
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