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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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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

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The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.

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There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

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

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Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.

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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.

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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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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

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Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

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

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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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

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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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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.

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