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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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Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. – Emily Dickinson

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There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power. – Eugenio Montale

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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. – Gertrude Stein

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