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Quote by W.B. Yeats
Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarre

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. – W.B. Yeats

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. – W.B. Yeats

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Self
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The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed. – W.B. Yeats

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Poetry
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I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love. – W.B. Yeats

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Fate
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I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesnt seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago. – James Laughlin

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I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. – Howard Nemerov

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But one does not make living writing poetry unless youre a professor, and one frankly doesnt get a lot of girls as a poet. – Jeffery Deaver

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The poet illuminates us by the flames in which his being passes away. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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