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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 not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

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The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

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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 only occupy the idle.

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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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Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.

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There were poets before Homer.

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

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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.

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

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Why then we should drop into poetry.

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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

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

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

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

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We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt.

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