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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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America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? – Azar Nafisi

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Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity – the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga. – J. Courtney Sullivan

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Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. – Archibald MacLeish

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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, “Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.” – Robert Penn Warren, “The Themes of Robert Frost,” Hopwood Lecture, 1947

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