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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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"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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"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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"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 took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie."
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"The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember."
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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."
Will
"There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them."
Truth
"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."
God
"The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order."
Literature
"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."
Poet
"Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs."
Act
"Life is a horizontal fall."
Life
"Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself."
Public
"After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter."
Reading
"The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends."
Friendship
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