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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.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Profound Quotes , Poetry Quotes
  • 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.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Imagination Quotes , Poetry Quotes
  • The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those who still believe that language is 'only words' and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Believe Quotes , Poetry Quotes
  • 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.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Art Quotes , Poetry Quotes