Immanuel Kant Quotes, Art Quotes, Poetry Quotes

Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

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

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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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Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.

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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?

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Only poetry inspires poetry.

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poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

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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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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 word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

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

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The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

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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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A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

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

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