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

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Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.

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And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

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Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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Why then we should drop into poetry.

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I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest.

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Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.

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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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The poetry of speech.

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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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All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

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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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Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng

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

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All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

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