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It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
About Being Combination Exciting
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

Advise Congress Distinct Duties
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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

Who draws Nobles delights Poetry
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I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
About Age Every Feared
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Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

Being Capable Larger Laureate
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I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

About Am Arts Federal
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My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

Bread Butter Favorite May
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In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.

Discover Enjoy Lots Love
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The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.

Clouds Ecstasy Feel Me
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'Rather You Than Me' just speaks for my natural instinct to survive, but it's also me being a writer, me being a poet - there's also a beautiful side to 'Rather You Than Me.'

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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Art Creating Gardens Imaginary
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Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Noun Poetry
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I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
Calling Category Except I See
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It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.

Back Cannot Critic Cruel
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There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a poet, I have no higher enjoyment than singing her sons and daughters.

Alive Am Anything Country
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Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.

Angry Daily Earnest Falling
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God is the perfect poet.

God Perfect Poet
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I love romantic poetry.
Love Romantic Poetry
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Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Burning Evidence Just Life
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I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

Group Jazz Liked Lyrics
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I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.

Also Barely Carry Could
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I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

Always Call Certain Dangerous
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Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.

Around Genuine Hanging Known
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The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.

According Better Easier Impression
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The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.

Always Blend Burn Clear
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Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

Thinking Lower grades Comparable Paper money
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I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.

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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Never entered Poetry Surrounded
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People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

Celebrate Celebrated Mistake More
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Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
Just Language Life Matter
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A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Great Jewel Most Nation
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Wine is bottled poetry.
Bottled Poetry Wine
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Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

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A poet must learn to wage war.

Poet Learn Wage war
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Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack.

Today Poems Iron Poet
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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

Against Always Apparently Artifice
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Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it

Poetry Keep life Endure Almost anything
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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

Poet Believe Leads Died
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The eye is the notebook of the poet.

Eye Of Notebook Poet
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Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very "poetry of his soul".Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time.

Believe Man Truly love Woman
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There are very few great poets in the world.

Very few Great poets World
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

Poetry Situation State Facing life
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

Poetry Mathematics Rigorous relationship
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All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man

All arts Poetry Music Visible
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I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

A poet My lies The way My mother
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how.

Acts Creation Ordinarily reserved Gods
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Poetry is the disease of the brain.

Poetry Disease The pain
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Poetry may help us ask questions about our own lives.

Poetry Help us Ask questions Own lives
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