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

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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

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What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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Let your poem be kept nine years.

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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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The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

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The finest poetry was first experience.

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At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd

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I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

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

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Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

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The poetry of speech.

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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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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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