Oscar Wilde Quotes, Two Quotes, Poetry Quotes

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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Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.

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Poetry is the Devil's wine.

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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 finest poetry was first experience.

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Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.

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Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.

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At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd

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Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.

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

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

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

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Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.

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

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

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Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

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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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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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

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