"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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"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."

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

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

"Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam."

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