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for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.

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I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

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

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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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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Poetry is a mug's game.

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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

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Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

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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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Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.

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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

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

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Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

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Poetry is the Devil's wine.

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The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

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

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