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The poet... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that

The poet… may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. – Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination, 1950

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Pressure cranks and presses Life, squeezing out essence of self, aromatic with bittersweet memories, pungent adversities, and the honey-musk of desire — the vapors hover over our inkpots, and if we pick up the feather it becomes our poetry. – Terri Guillemets

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[P]oetry shares our misery, it is agitated with all our uneasiness; like us, it goes, comes, flies, never rests. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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