If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

—David Carradine

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About David Carradine

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John Arthur "David" Carradine Jr. ( KARR-ə-deen; December 8, 1936 – June 3, 2009) was an American actor and director, whose career included over 200 major and minor roles in film, television and on stage. He was widely known to television audiences as the star of the series Kung Fu...

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I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

—Howard Nemerov

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A picture is a poem without words.

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There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

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This is an age of divorce. Things that belong together have been taken apart. And you can't put it all back together again. What you do is the only thing that you can do: you take two things that ought to be together and you put them back together. Two things, not all things! That's the way the work has to go. You make connections in your work… That's what we do, we people who make things. If it's a stool or a film or a poem or an essay or a novel or a musical composition, it's all about that. Finding how it fits together and fitting it together.

—Wendell Berry

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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.

—Emily Dickinson

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