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Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. – Allen Tate

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There is probably nothing wrong with art for arts sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. – Allen Tate

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I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it. – Allen Tate

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How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry. – Allen Tate

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I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. Its not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. – Saul Williams

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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. – Denis Diderot

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In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. – Danielle Steel

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I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a suspension of belief. A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true. – W. H. Auden

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