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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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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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Poetry
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So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman. – Allen Tate

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I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. Its hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. – David Antin

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If we ask a vague question, such as, What is poetry? we expect a vague answer, such as, Poetry is the music of words, or Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder. – A. R. Ammons

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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals cant read any poetry. – Randall Jarrell

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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isnt poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do. – J. Milton Hayes

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