For two decades, I’ve maintained a list of quotes I like by poets, writers, and thinkers I find interesting. This post is part of that series. All posts in the series are organized alphabetically. Some poets and writers have their own dedicated pages.

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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. — William Butler Yeats

all that separates the ghost is / the body / the sea / the salt. — Hannah Yerington

But to live against all odds, to walk / through this world instead of crawling because / told to crawl? Yes, a dark and powerful magic. — C. Dale Young