Jack London Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Rhyming Quotes

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

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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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Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.

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

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Only poetry inspires poetry.

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

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The finest poetry was first experience.

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I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest.

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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.

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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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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

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The poetry of speech.

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

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

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It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.

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

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