James Joyce Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Poetry Quotes

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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It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.

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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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All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

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Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

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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 finest poetry was first experience.

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Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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Poetry is the Devil's wine.

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

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Poetry is music written for the human voice.

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

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

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

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