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

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"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets."

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

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"I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from."

Robert Adamson, Scottish Philosopher

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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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"Poets wish to profit or to please."

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"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets."

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

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

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

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

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

"I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from."

"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."

"Poets wish to profit or to please."

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