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

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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

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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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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

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Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

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Poetry is the Devil's wine.

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I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

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There were poets before Homer.

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

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All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.

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Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

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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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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

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I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite continental poet, Daunty, Gouty and Shopkeeper, A.G., whom the generality admoyers in this that is and that this is to come.

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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

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And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

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If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

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for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.

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