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

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"They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me."

"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."

"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind."

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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."

"There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them."

"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"

"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."

"Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."

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