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"The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible."
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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."
"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."
"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."
"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."
"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."
"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
"I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates."
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