Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Mind Quotes

Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.

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

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Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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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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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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The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

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The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.

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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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Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.

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

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The true poem is the poet's mind.

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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

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I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

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Poetry is music written for the human voice.

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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

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

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