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"The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible."
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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."
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"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."
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"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."
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"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets."
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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
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"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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"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."
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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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"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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"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."
Knowledge
"If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph."
Justice
"It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind."
Word
"We understand the ordinary business of living, We know how to work the machine."
Society
"As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill."
Happiness
"Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?"
Knowledge
"Music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts."
Music
"This love is silent."
Love
"O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked."
Heart
"Because I came to seeThat I should never have been a first-rate potter.I didn't have it in me. It's strange, isn't it, That a man should have a consuming passion To do something for which he lacks the capacity? Could a man be said to have a vocation To be a second-rate potter? To be, at best,A competent copier, possessed by the cravingTo create, when one is wholly uncreative?I don't think so. For I came to see, That I had always known, at the secret moments,That I didn't have it in me. There are occasionsWhen I am transported- a different person,Transfigured in the vision of some marvellous creation,And I feel what the man must have felt when he made it.But nothing I made ever gave me that contentment-That state of utter exhaustion and peaceWhich comes in dying to give something life..."
Creativity
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