Robert Burns Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Fit Quotes

Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.

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It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

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Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.

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The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

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

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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

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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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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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Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.

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Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.

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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?

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Only poetry inspires poetry.

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The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

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What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.

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Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd

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One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.

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Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.

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