"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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"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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"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets."

Christopher Morley, American Author

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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."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam."

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"Poets wish to profit or to please."

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"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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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."

Jean Cocteau, French Director

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"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."

John Barton, Canadian Poet

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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."

Tom Glazer, American Musician

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"Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction."

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"I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."

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"I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me."

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"I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution."

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"In fact, in some ways, I actually feel much more confident about the quality of Carousel than I do about The Cottage Builder's Letter: probably because of its cohesive nature."

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"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets."

"Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin."

"Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam."

"Poets wish to profit or to please."

"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."

"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

"The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible."

"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."

"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."

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"Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction."

"I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."

"I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me."

"I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution."

"My self-editing process is intense."

"In fact, in some ways, I actually feel much more confident about the quality of Carousel than I do about The Cottage Builder's Letter: probably because of its cohesive nature."

"The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming."

"In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada."

"With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly."

"I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no."