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

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

Poets are like the decathletes of literature.

People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

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

I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.

A connection between poetry and blindness is a classical trope.

Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think.

The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.