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Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

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Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

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Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.

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The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!

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How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

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For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.

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Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

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Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

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Men expect too much, do too little.

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The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.

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According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.

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At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.

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What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

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I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.

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In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.

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Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.

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You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.

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In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.

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I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.

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To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow.

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