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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

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A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.

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It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.

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It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.

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The finest poetry was first experience.

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Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

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Only poetry inspires poetry.

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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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Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

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

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And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

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

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One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.

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I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie.

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Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

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Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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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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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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