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title: "3 Poet Wasn Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [When I came back to New York, it was such a joke because I was always referred to as the pure young…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-carroll/when-i-came-back-to-new-york-it-was-such-a-joke-because-i-was-always/)

[Jim Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-carroll/)

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> [ I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, \[so\] I thought… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/i-was-twenty-nine-years-old-and-i-wasn-t-a-very-good-poet-and-i-wasn/)

[Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/)

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> [There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/there-has-never-been-a-great-poet-who-wasn-t-also-a-great-reader-of/)

[Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b1/edward-hirsch-1614_books_there-has-never-been-a-great-poet-who-wa_2306619.png)

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