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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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Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such. – Peter Davison

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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence. – Laura Marling

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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. – Rita Dove

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A poets autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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