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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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"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."
"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."
"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."
"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."
"I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe."
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"This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile."
"Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light."
"Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through."
"Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life."
"Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings."
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