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I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest.

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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

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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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The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

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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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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.

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The union of a want and a sentiment.

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

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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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 is a mug's game.

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Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

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Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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Language is fossil Poetry.

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And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

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That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

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