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"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."
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"Poets are born, not paid."
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"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets."
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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
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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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"Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam."
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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 lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot."
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"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."
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"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."
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"The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings."
Mistake
"Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price."
Courage
"We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world."
Cooperation
"In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away."
Time
"Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world."
Poetry
"I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet."
Language
"Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words."
Poetry
"I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers."
Work
"Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever."
Nothing
"I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter."
Friendship
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