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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

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'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

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You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.

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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

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And each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.

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Poetry makes nothing happen.

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There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach m...more

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In the prison of his daysTeach the free man how to praise

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I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday" - Is that still as easy?

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When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.

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The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are tau...more

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Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

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Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place f...more