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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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"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."
"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."
"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."
"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."
"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
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"Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death."
"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."
"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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