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Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

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Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.

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The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made.

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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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Poetry is a mug's game.

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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

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Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

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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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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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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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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

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Let your poem be kept nine years.

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Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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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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The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

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There were poets before Homer.

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