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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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At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age. ↗

— Marguerite Young

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I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience. ↗

— Marguerite Young

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I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real. ↗

— Marguerite Young

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I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons. ↗

— Marguerite Young

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I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

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