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I don't like to call myself a poet, ... Most poets are shiftless, no-account fools.
August Kleinzahler
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It's not as if he didn't understand that much of his behavior was driven by desperation and self-hate, ... He wasn't shallow or unreflective, quite the contrary. It was simply the way he was. He was born wild, born troubled. He wasn't designed for the long haul; not everyone is.
— August Kleinzahler
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The New Jersey character - at least this part of Jersey - is straightforward, plainspoken to the point of bluntness, though not at all unfriendly, ... The humor is deadpan, ironical, playfully depreciating. Affectation is quickly and viscerally registered.
— August Kleinzahler
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
— Wislawa Szymborska
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
— T.S. Eliot
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The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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