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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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"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."
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"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets."
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"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."
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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 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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"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
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"Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot."
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"There are very few great poets in the world."
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"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
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"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."
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"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"
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"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth."
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"The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee."
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"There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them."
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"It is not I who become addicted, it is my body."
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"If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it."
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"Style is a simple way of saying complicated things."
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"Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far."
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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
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