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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden
All great poets become naturally, fatally, critics
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me
The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them
The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse
�Therefore� is a word the poet must not know
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood
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