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Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

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The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.

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

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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

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

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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

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Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt.

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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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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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Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

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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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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.

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

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I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

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Test of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove; Never was poet, of late or of yore, Who was not tremulous with love-lore.

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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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