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The literary world is so full of pretension, and there's such an enormous gap between how seriously poets take themselves and how widely they're ignored by everybody else.

Billy Collins
World, Gaps, Ignored
"A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.
The literary world is so full of pretension, and there's such an enormous gap between how seriously poets take themselves and how widely they're ignored by everybody else.