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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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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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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The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.
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Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is: Why did other people stop?
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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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I wrote poetry for seven or eight years, maybe longer, before I could say I was a poet. If people asked, I'd say I wrote poetry; I wouldn't go further. I was in my mid- to late-thirties before I felt that I was a poet, which I think meant that I had begun to embody my poems in some way. I wasn't just a writer of them. Hard to say what, as a poet, my place in the world is. Some place probably between recognition and neglect.
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I just want to be a fighter. I just like to win fights.
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I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
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There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.
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In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make.
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The engineers of the future will be poets.
