Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make the happiness of the rudest handicraftsman as well as that of the ideal craftsman of the spirit? Because, probably, at his highest elevation, the poet needs no human intercourse; but he finds it dreary to descend, and be a stranger. Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The poet needs no human intercourse, the poet needs no human company, the poet needs no human life. The poet is a man or woman of solitude, who needs nothing or no one to live for except their own genius.

Source: The House Of The Seven Gables

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