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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. – Edmond de Goncourt

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A poets autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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I dont like political poetry, and I dont write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers. – Diane Wakoski

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My old teachers definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. – Thom Gunn

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Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. – Vanessa Redgrave

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