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A poet is a world enclosed in a man.
-Victor Hugo
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A Poet Is A World Enclosed In

Victor Hugo
A poet is a world enclosed in a man.
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One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. the good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. a good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.
Art Unique Stealing Things
It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. all i can say is that i have always written poems. i don't think i'm interested in any discussion about whether i'm a good poet, a bad poet or a great poet. but i am sure, i want to write great poems. i think every poet should want that.
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There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "tell me how to become a poet. tell me what to do." . . . what makes you a poet is a gift for language, an ability to see into the heart of things, and an ability to deal with important unconscious material. when all these things come together, you're a poet. but there isn't one little gimmick that makes you a poet. there isn't any formula for it.
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...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. the self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are often ruthlessly sacrificed. the poet self is the real self, the other one is the carrier; and when the poet self dies, the person dies.
Real Self Poet
I wrote poetry for seven or eight years, maybe longer, before i could say i was a poet. if people asked, i'd say i wrote poetry; i wouldn't go further. i was in my mid- to late-thirties before i felt that i was a poet, which i think meant that i had begun to embody my poems in some way. i wasn't just a writer of them. hard to say what, as a poet, my place in the world is. some place probably between recognition and neglect.
Thinking People World
Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a guggenheim fellowship, a kenyon review fellowship, and the prix de rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. and yet in one way the old days were better; [vachel] lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today.
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