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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.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Art Quotes , Poetry Quotes
  • Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Ice Quotes , Poetry Quotes
  • 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.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Poetry Quotes , Attention Quotes