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Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposi

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. – Carol Ann Duffy

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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. – William Butler Yeats

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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. – Leonard Cohen

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Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true. – Lafcadio Hearn

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Societys dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place – the place of our separation, our distinction – that much of his poetry occupies. – Tomas Transtromer

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