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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

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

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Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng

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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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I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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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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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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I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest.

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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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The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

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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 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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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

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Language is fossil Poetry.

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Poetry is music written for the human voice.

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I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

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

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

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