"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."

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"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."

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"Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together."

Roger McGough, British Poet

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"Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam."

Conor Oberst, American Musician

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"There are very few great poets in the world."

Tahar Ben Jelloun, French Poet

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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."

Diane Wakoski, American Poet

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

Jean Cocteau, French Director

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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."

John C. Ransom, American Poet

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

Dougray Scott, Scottish Actor

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"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."

Edmund Waller, English Poet

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"Poets wish to profit or to please."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite."

Truth

"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

"For me, prose walks, poetry dances."

Poetry

"A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living."

Life

"If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life."

Life

"Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing."

Being

"My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls."

Justice

"Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now."

Existence

"My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it."

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"And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts."

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