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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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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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Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

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The true poem is the poet's mind.

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Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

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There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

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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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Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

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If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

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Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

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I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite continental poet, Daunty, Gouty and Shopkeeper, A.G., whom the generality admoyers in this that is and that this is to come.

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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

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

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Every old poem is sacred.

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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

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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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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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