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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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"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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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
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"Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other."
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"I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie."
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"I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom."
Wisdom
"Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice."
Decision-Making
"Somewhere out there the world must have an end."
Existence
"I started earning a living as a poet rather early on."
Living
"Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life."
Life
"This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile."
Beauty
"You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects."
Universe
"In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed."
Comedy
"Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings."
Inspirational
"All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination."
Imagination
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