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"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."
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"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."
Poet
"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
"The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel."
Travel
"Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur."
Being
"It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work."
Work
"I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet."
Thought
"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
"I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not."
Poetry
"Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things."
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"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
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Personal Development
"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."
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Personal Development
"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets."
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Personal Development
"Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence."
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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."
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"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."
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Personal Development
"The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember."
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"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
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"I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie."
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"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."
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