Robert Frost Quotes, Grief Quotes, Poetry Quotes

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

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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 gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

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There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

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All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

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Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

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

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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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Poetry is the Devil's wine.

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Only poetry inspires poetry.

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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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Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

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Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

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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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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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Poetry is a mug's game.

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The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.

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

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