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"Too many poets delude themselves by thinking that the mind is dangerous and must be left out. Well, the mind is dangerous and must be left in."
Robert Frost
"A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child."
Henry Mencken
"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of Creation."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"The one man who should never attempt an explanation on poetry is its author. If the poem can be improved by its author’s explanations, it never should have been published."
Archibald MacLeish
"A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair."
Robert Frost
"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."
Robert Frost
"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have: Cincinnati sounds worse."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."
Emily Dickinson
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