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“The poet is a pretender. / He pretends so completely, / that he even pretends that it is pain / the pain he really feels.”

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Author:Fernando Pessoa

“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”

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Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the pain and yowls at the weapons that lacerate him; the great poet explores the inflamed lips of ruined flesh with ice-caked fingers, glittering and precise; but ultimately his poem is the echoing, dual voice reporting the damages.”

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Author:Samuel R. Delany