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"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."
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"I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from."

"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."

"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."

"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."

"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."
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"And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear."

"Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be."
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