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  • 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.
    • 5 years ago



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



    Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Simple 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.
    • 5 years ago



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