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One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.
-Philip Larkin
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One Of The Great Criticisms Of Poets

Philip Larkin
One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.
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I just said let's get some poets on tv. and when they said that sounded unlikely, i made it worse. i said, no man, i want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too. some latino poets who barely speak english and asian poets who can't believe how discriminated against they are. it was luck nad being in the right place. i wasn't saying nothing somebody else wasn't saying but they wouldn't hear it from them.
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I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. you've got to have people putting you down. it doesn't give any edge to it if everybody just falls flat on their face saying, "you're great." we enjoy some of the criticisms as well, they're quite funny; some of the clever criticisms, not the ones that don't know anything, but some of the clever ones are quite fun.
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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.
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