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• The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
• If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make… — Socrates
• Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading. — Mark Doty
• Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true. — William Shenstone
• A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
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• There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of… — Anthony Hecht
• And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom… — Norman MacCaig
• No bad man can be a good poet. — Boris Pasternak
• Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying,… — J D Salinger
• Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question. — Dorianne Laux
• He was a great poet" They lamented. No, he was not a great poet," said Theo, "He was a good poet, he… — Lloyd Alexander

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