"The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness."
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"Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line."
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"The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line."
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"Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya."
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"If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness."
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"A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast."
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"I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead."
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"A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating."
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"The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind."
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"We are born poets. we become orators."
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"No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself."
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"There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself."
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"I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent."
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"Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays."
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"The poet casts an eye on what is horrendous, but his truest life is in what sustains, restores, heals. Love, the act of loving, beauty, are first, fundamental truths."
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"The poet resists the pressures of reality, including the pressures of violence, in making, in forming, the poem. The tension is in the resistance - the poem is an act of resistance."
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"At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age."
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"I want each poem to be ambiguous enough that its meaning can shift, depending on the reader's own frame of reference, and depending on the reader's mood. That's why negative capability matters; if the poet stops short of fully controlling each poem's meaning, the reader can make the poem his or her own."
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"I want to reiterate that my understanding of the poem is not the poem's core, true meaning. Once a poem goes out into the world, the poet is just one more reader."
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"I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!"
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