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Every old poem is sacred.

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

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Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Life Quotes , Poetry Quotes

Test of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove; Never was poet, of late or of yore, Who was not tremulous with love-lore.

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

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A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

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

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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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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Simple Quotes , Poetry Quotes

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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Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

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O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake.

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Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.

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

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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Why then we should drop into poetry.

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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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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

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Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

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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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