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

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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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Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

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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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It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.

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All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.

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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

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The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs.

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

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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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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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Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

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Poets are born, not paid.

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The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

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

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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