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Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been a painter than to bother with these god-damn words. I never actually thought of myself as a poet but I knew I had to be an artist in some way. ↗

— William Carlos Williams

#kora-in-hell #modernist-poets #red-wheel-barrow #this-is-just-to-say #life

The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered. ↗

— Dan Simmons

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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. ↗

— Zelda Fitzgerald

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I am talking about the responsibility of the poet, who is irresponsible by definition, an anarchist enamored of a solar order and never of the new order or whatever slogan makes five or six hundred million men march in step in a parody of order. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

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Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Them lady poets must not marry, pal. ↗

— John Berryman

#poets #dreams

[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#solitude #poets

You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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