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Every old poem is sacred.

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

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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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Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate.

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Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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

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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

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

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The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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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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Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.

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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

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

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

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There were poets before Homer.

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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

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An undevout poet is an impossibility.

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

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