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

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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

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Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

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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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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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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 poetry of speech.

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It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.

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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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Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

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Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

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Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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