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Quotes by Poet
"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."
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"Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make."
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"I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity."
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"Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun."
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"The earth provides us a brand new beginning every twenty-four hours. It is a repeated invitation to breathe in the cool morning air and start afresh; to mimic the sunrise and brighten up while reaching once more for the sky; to carry a glad song in our heart like the early birds; and, as faithfully as the morning dew, to wash off the dust from yesterday."
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"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
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"I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses."
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"The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious."
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"Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her."
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"We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers."
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"Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose."
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"People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long."
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"They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World."
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"Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose."
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"I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why."
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"There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid."
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"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."
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"It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man."
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"You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames."
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"What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project."
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"After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs."
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"An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight."
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"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise."
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