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The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs.

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Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

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It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.

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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

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Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

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I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

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The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

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A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

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The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

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For this present, hard Is the fortune of the bard, Born out of time; All his accomplishment, From Nature's utmost treasure spent, Booteth not him.

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Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

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Every old poem is sacred.

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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