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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 believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels. – Tobias Wolff

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[P]oetry, that pearl of intelligence and life, reflects on our brow some pale rays of the glory that has faded away from it. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. – Jean Cocteau

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If the author had said “Let us put on appropriate galoshes,” there could, of course, have been no poem. – Author Unknown

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