William Wordsworth Quotes, Poetry Quotes

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

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

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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 may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

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

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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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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

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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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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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Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.

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

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Language is fossil Poetry.

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Poetry is music written for the human voice.

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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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I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

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

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

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The true poem is the poet's mind.

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