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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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Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. – Allen Tate

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Im not an academic, but Ive always loved poetry since Ive been small. – Naveen Andrews

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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. – Percy Shelley, A Defence of Poetry, 1821

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Ive written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck. – J. Michael Straczynski

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