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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."
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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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"I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out."
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"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."
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"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."
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"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
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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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"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."
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"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
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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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"I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out."
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"My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery."
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"Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed."
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"Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home."
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