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"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."
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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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"There are very few great poets in the world."
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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 don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
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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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"Poets wish to profit or to please."
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"It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets."
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"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
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"The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible."
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"Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin."
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"I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action."
Imagination
"The only limits are, as always, those of vision."
Vision
"Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now."
Existence
"Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers."
Poetry
"Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be."
People
"Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater."
Movies
"Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect."
Being
"Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is."
Poetry
"If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop."
Act
"I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public."
Art
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