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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

The attention one gets from being a poet isn't great.

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

Poets are like the decathletes of literature.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.