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"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."
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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."
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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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"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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"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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"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."
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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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"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."
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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
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"Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other."
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"I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic."
Economy
"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
"My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls."
Justice
"I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion."
Emotional
"Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open."
Equality
"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."
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"Adversity is a stimulus."
Adversity
"In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets."
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"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
"The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy."
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