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The union of a want and a sentiment.

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

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I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

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

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

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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.

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It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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Language is fossil Poetry.

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

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Only poetry inspires poetry.

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

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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

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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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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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The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

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I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

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That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

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One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.

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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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