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Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visi

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appall them if it did. – Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe

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Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. – Robert Staughton Lynd

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To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry. – Laura Riding

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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. – Mark Strand

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