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title: "4 Poets Tend Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [Poets tend to form loose groups - the "Romantics" or the "Imagists". And sometimes they write manifestoes in the name of these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rae-armantrout/poets-tend-to-form-loose-groups-the-romantics-or-the-imagists-and/)

[Rae Armantrout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rae-armantrout/)

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> [It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics… Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/it-is-a-curious-thing-how-poets-tend-to-become-ascetics-even-a/)

[D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/)

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> [“In the beginning, poets make their best efforts to fit words into their rhyme and lyric. However, as time passes and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alok-mishra/in-the-beginning-poets-make-their-best-efforts-to-fit-words-into/)

[Alok Mishra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alok-mishra/)

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> [Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/like-many-modern-poets-i-tend-to-conceal-rhymes-by-placing-them-in/)

[Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e8/margaret-atwood-40_alliteration_like-many-modern-poets-i-tend-to-conceal_2016075.jpg)

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