"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."

James Broughton, American Director

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

Brian Harris, American Lawyer

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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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"It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets."

Dougray Scott, Scottish Actor

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"When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble."

John C. Ransom, American Poet

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

Helen Dunmore, British Poet

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"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."

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"The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them."

Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian Author

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

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

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

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

"It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets."

"When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble."

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

"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."

"The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them."

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"The belief in some being who can be the judge of all human matters is a very comfortable one - all wrongs will be righted and all rights will be rewarded."

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