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Poets are born, not paid.

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There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

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The finest poetry was first experience.

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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

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Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.

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Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

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Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.

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Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate.

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Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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An undevout poet is an impossibility.

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There were poets before Homer.

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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

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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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It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.

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Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

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Why then we should drop into poetry.

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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

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What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.

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