William Wordsworth Quotes, Poetry Quotes

Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.

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Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.

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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

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

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Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

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Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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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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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

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It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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

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

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One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Two Quotes , Poetry Quotes

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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A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

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

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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

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The finest poetry was first experience.

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