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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

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I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

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for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.

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Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.

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It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

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

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I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

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Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

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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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And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.

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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

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All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.

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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

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There were poets before Homer.

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It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.

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