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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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

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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 should only occupy the idle.

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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

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

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I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

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Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

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Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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

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The finest poetry was first experience.

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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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Poetry is a mug's game.

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

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The union of a want and a sentiment.

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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

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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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Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

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