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

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My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. Im not kidding. – Harry Mathews

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“Therefore” is a word the poet must not know. – André Gide

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I dont think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs dont come from the surface they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. – Judy Collins

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Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. – Anatole Broyard

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