“The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.”
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Source: The poetics
“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”
Source: Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose
“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.”
“Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.”
“The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.”
Source: Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure
“The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.”