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"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."
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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."
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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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"When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble."
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"Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets."
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"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."
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"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."
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"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets."
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"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."
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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
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"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."
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"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."
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"He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they?"
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"There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas."
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"Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that."
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"Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess."
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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."
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