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“It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.”

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Author:Anne Sexton

“I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.”

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Book:The spiral of memory: interviews

Source: The spiral of memory: interviews

“I believe in solitude broken like bread by poetry.”

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Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief n 'tradition' or a common myth-kitty or casual allusions in poems to other poems or poets, which last I find unpleasantly like the talk of literary understrappers letting you see they know the right people.”

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Author:Philip Larkin

“I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horrors of sordid passion, and - if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman.”

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Author:Robert Graves

“I believe that if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.”

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Author:Benito Perez Galdos