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There’s no money in poetry, but there’s no poetry in money, either ↗

— Robert Graves

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

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The poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire. He is responsible for humanity, for animals even; he will have to make sure his visions can be smelled, fondled, listened to; if what he brings back from beyond has form, he gives it form; if it has none, he gives it none. A language must be found…of the soul, for the soul and will include everything: perfumes, sounds colors, thought grappling with thought ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

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When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think ↗

— Tom Schulman

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Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of arts, he would have managed to write mediocre poetry, good enough for a lady’s album – and this is always a gallant thing to do, whatever you may say. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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Them lady poets must not marry, pal. ↗

— John Berryman

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[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

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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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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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