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“I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.”
“My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.”
“Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.”
“Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.”
“Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful.”
“Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle.”
“No really sensible person ever remembers enough poetry to recite it.”
“All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.”
“True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.”
“Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.”
“If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.”
“He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.”
“A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.”
“Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.”
“My poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne.”
“These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.”