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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. ↗

— William Wordsworth

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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ↗

— Steven Wright

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I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

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Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate. ↗

— William Wycherley

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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. ↗

— Edward Young

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