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"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."
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"Poets wish to profit or to please."
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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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"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."
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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
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"I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature."
Family
"Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost."
Writing
"The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel."
Travel
"It takes a long time to publish a book."
Time
"When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!"
Writing
"I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal."
Emotional
"It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in."
Humor
"I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other."
People
"I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s."
Love
"Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers."
Man
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