"Poets wish to profit or to please."

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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 are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."

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"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."

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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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"Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence."

Brian Harris, American Lawyer

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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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"It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets."

Dougray Scott, Scottish Actor

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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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"He has the deed half done who has made a beginning."

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"Fools through false shame conceal their open wounds."

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"Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance."

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"The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice."

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"I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well."

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"He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin."

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"No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water."

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"Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death."

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"Riches either serve or govern the possessor."

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