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A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.

Source: Less Than One: Selected Essays, A Poet and Prose, sct. 2 (1986; first published 1979).
-- Joseph Brodsky, (May 24 1940-1996), Russian-US poet; He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987 for his important lyric and elegiac poems; first foreign-born US poet laureate, 1991.

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