"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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"Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it."

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"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul."

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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."

"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."

"When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble."

"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."

"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."

"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."

"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets."

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

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"People can put their best poems straight onto the web."

"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."

"Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it."

"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul."

"You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals."

"We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it."

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