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"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."
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"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."
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"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets."
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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
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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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"I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out."
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"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."
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"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."
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"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."
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"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."
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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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"I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough."
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"I never joined the army for patriotic reasons."
Army

"Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me."
Art

"Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way."
Poetry

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

"Nothing can justify war."
War

"I despair of ever writing excellent poetry."
Poetry

"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."
Poetry

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