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

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I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

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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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Every old poem is sacred.

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I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie.

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

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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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Poetry is the Devil's wine.

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

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

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Let your poem be kept nine years.

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The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

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Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

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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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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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Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

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