Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags.
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Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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I have such memories; I keep thinking about all the people I worked with. I was in the recording studio and I was talking to one of the engineers who is 24 and they don't know these people. They just absolutely don't know the people and it just tickles me. I don't feel like I've grown up.
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The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.
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A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
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If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.
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Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
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Threadbare his songs seem now, to lettered ken: They were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.
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Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it, Before that brief gleam of its life be gone.
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Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn-that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness-that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.
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Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house
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Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
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Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.
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It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.
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It's nice to dig deeper into people who may look one way but always have a story to tell. I obviously write about that a lot.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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The engineers of the future will be poets.
