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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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As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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The crown of literature is poetry. – W. Somerset Maugham

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I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. – James Dickey

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It is the hour to be drunken! Be drunken, if you would not be martyred slaves of Time; be drunken continually! With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. – Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), “Be Drunken,” translated from French by Arthur

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