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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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for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.

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Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.

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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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The union of a want and a sentiment.

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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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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

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It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

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

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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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Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

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Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

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

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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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Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.

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

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