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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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"They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me."
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"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."
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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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"There are very few great poets in the world."
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"Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence."
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"I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself."
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"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."
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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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"When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble."
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"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."
People
"I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it."
Life
"I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman."
Writing
"Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time."
Time
"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."
Poet
"I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this."
Now
"I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen."
Poet
"I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth."
Religion
"I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building."
Building
"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
Poetry
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