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Poetry is a mug's game.

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Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.

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Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

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Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate.

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Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

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Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

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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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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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Test of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove; Never was poet, of late or of yore, Who was not tremulous with love-lore.

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

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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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.

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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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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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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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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Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

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The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

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