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All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.

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Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

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Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

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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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There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

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

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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

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For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.

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

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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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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

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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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Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.

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

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

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

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

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