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Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

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A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

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We have more poets thatnjudges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem that to understand a good one.

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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

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The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

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Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

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Man may be considered as a superior species of animal who produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.

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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

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