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

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

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite continental poet, Daunty, Gouty and Shopkeeper, A.G., whom the generality admoyers in this that is and that this is to come.

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The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

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If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

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poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

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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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Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

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Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

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

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There were poets before Homer.

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Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.

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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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Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.

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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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And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.

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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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All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

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... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

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