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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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"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
"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"
Success
"Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."
Death
"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them."
Life
"The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order."
Literature
"I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead."
News
"The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed."
Admiration
"There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul."
Love
"One must be a living man and a posthumous artist."
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"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
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"Poets wish to profit or to please."
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"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."
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"I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe."
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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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"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets."
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"Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence."
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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."
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"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."
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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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