Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
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