"I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems."
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"The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault."
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"After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being poets. Poets send their creations into the world, it is up to the reader, the aesthetician, and the critic to determine what they wanted to say with their creations."
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"Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink."
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"Poetry can magnify experience."
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"Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought."
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"Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened."
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"All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially."
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"He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth."
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"From it's inception Beat poetry was hailed as "something NEW" and "like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected - by hip people who listen." But the newness of jazz has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach."
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"I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money."
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"Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet."
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"Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs."
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"At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings."
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"All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment."
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"Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors."
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"I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other."
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"Poetry is the Devil's wine."
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"Every word was once a poem."
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"Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet."
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