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

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

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

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"I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie."

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

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"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."

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

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"The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember."

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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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"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence."

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