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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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Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them. – Allen Tate

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[P]oetry… folds its wings at the rough contact of reality… it feels in one sense much more, and in another much less, than the soul engaged with reality… – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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