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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

Assurance Been Himself Learned
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That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

Certainly Change Directly Enterprise
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

Along Cannot Day Each
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The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Below Far Invisible Musician
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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

Actual Business Emotions Express
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Being Capacity Consumed Continuing
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The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Gods Only Poets Interpreters
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The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

Beauty Discovery Majesty Nature
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Beauty Brief Creation Define
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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Admire Critic Fire Generous
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Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet of England and her dominions).

America Arrogant England Her
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I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.
Cold Did Ghost Had
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There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the three.

Poet Lunatic Lover Religious
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
Breathing Involuntary Mortals Natural
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The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.

More Poets Sound Than
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Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.

Chances Each Experience He
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

Poet Merely Proves Exists
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I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

Believe Believed Critic Criticism
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A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.

Reading Kind Common Articulated
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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Body Essence Gives His
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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Beings Create Exist Know
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For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs.

Essential Poet Have Toast
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

Atoms Concerned Creating Describing
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The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

The poet Love Words Knot
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My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

After Dad Maria Me
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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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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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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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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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The eye is the notebook of the poet.

Eye Of Notebook Poet
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Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?

Who Say Perfect Poet
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Reason cannot produce the poetry disorder does.

Reason Produce Poetry Disorder
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The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

Poet Asks Admiration Believed
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Poet Liar Speaks Truth
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

Poet Invent Listens
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot

Dancing Poetry Foot
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The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Poetry Earth Dead
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The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent

Poet Live Invent Human life
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.

Poets Vanguard Conception Being
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