George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Poetry Quotes

You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

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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 should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

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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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Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

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Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

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

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

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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 poetry of speech.

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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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A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

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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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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

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

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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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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

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