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"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."
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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."

"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."

"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."

"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."
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"Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live."

"I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on."

"I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough."

"You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had."
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