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Every old poem is sacred.

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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

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

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

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

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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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O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake.

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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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Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

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Poetry is music written for the human voice.

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

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An undevout poet is an impossibility.

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Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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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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I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.

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Poetry is the Devil's wine.

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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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Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.

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