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“Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life beyond our fate,And be the new Prometheus of new men,Bestowing fire from Heaven, and then, too late,Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain”

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Author:Lord Byron

“The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang period.”

Stuff Walks Poet Wall Periods Late Deserve Red Chinese Compare Prose Emeralds

Author:Brian Aldiss

“Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.”

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Author:Robert Graves

“I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come into the world too early or too late. I believe that every man of intellect can create his own beautiful fable of life.”

Men World Believe Age Beautiful I Believe Poet Late Intellect Complaining Every Man Too Late Fables Vulgarity Indignant

Author:Gabriele d'Annunzio

“I've been trying to come to terms with what I am and what I do and what I believe in. And I see that I'm not happy with - well, it's almost as if being a poet is not enough for me. It's too late for me to do more now. I did what I could in a small way. I did it as theater, too, to be honest.”

Ifs Way Trying Believe Wells Enough I Believe Term Honest Poet Late Theater I Believe In Being Honest Too Late Not Happy

Author:Gerald Stern

“I'm not a poet, but I was in the poetry program. And I'm also not much of a nonfiction writer, at least not in the standard sense of nonfiction, nor especially in the way we were thinking about nonfiction back then, in the late 90s.”

Thinking Way Poet Late Standards Program Nonfiction

Author:John D'Agata

“I was an only child, a very late child, born to parents who were both 39 at the time, which was very late back then. That kind of confirmed my sense of being the center of the universe, which I guess every child feels - children and poets both tend to feel.”

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Author:Billy Collins