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"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."
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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 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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"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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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
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"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."
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"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."
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"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."
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"I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe."
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"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."
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"Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot."
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"As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry."
Poetry
"Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur."
Being
"I'm a writer who likes to be influenced."
Influence
"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
"The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel."
Travel
"I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal."
Emotional
"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
"It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work."
Work
"I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them."
People
"I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet."
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