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Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

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It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.

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Every old poem is sacred.

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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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Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

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Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.

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

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

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

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

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

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

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I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.

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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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