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The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search of a poem - the poem comes in search of him.

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Get rid of words, and get rid of meaning, and still there is poetry.

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe

Yang Wanli

Yang Wanli

Born: 1127
Died: 1206 (aged 79)
Bio: Yang Wanli was a Chinese poet, born in Jishui, Jiangxi. He was one of the "four masters" of Southern Song Dynasty poetry.

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