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

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

Kenneth Koch, American Poet

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

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

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

Edmund Waller, English Poet

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

Jean Cocteau, French Director

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"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."

Diane Wakoski, American Poet

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"I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way."

Jim Jarmusch, American Director

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

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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."

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

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

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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."

"I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen."

"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."

"I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way."

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

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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."

"One must be a living man and a posthumous artist."

"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious."

"Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself."

"The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed."

"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth."