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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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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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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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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Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. – Christopher Fry

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If theres no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. – Robert Graves

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Poetry is creative; to be a poet is to remake the universe. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Everyone thinks theyre going to write one book of poems or one novel. – Marilyn Hacker

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