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"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."
"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."
"The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible."
"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."
"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets."
"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."
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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."
"Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene."
"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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