"Poets are born, not paid."

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"It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets."

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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."

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

"Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence."

"Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin."

"It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets."

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

"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."

"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."

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