Quote by W.B. Yeats
The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends

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

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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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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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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer…. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. – E.B. White

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Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. – Archibald MacLeish

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I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life – though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless. – Anne Stevenson

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Poetry is the deification of reality. – Edith Sitwell

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