People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.
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Great artists suffer for the people.
Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.
I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.
The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.
Poets are like the decathletes of literature.
If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.
The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.
Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.
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