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"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."
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"I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from."
"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."
"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."
"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."
"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."
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"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."
"As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry."
"The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel."
"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."
"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!"
"It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling."
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