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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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I dont like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country. – Will Cuppy

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I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. – Diane Wakoski

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Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say theyre saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. – Harry Mathews

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The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming. – George Murray

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