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"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
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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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"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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"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."
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"Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam."
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"There are very few great poets in the world."
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"Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence."
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"I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself."
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"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
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"Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other."
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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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"You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,And how, how rare and strange it is, to findIn a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends,(For indeed I do not love it ... you knew? you are not blind! How keen you are!)To find a friend who has these qualities,Who has, and givesThose qualities upon which friendship lives.How much it means that I say this to you-Without these friendships-life, what cauchemar!"
Friendship
"Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature."
Literature
"A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give."
Literature
"Everyone's alone-or so it seems to me.They make noises, and think they are talking to each other;They make faces, and think they understand each other,And I'm sure they don't. Is that delusion?Can we only loveSomething created in our own imaginations?"
Emotion
"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."
Poetry
"A christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident."
Religion
"In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish."
Life
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
Time
"Should I after tea and cakes and ices have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?"
Motivational
"I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter."
Spiritual
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