Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Play Quotes, Poetry Quotes

Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

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

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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

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The poetry of speech.

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The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.

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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

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All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

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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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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

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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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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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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

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Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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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 this present, hard Is the fortune of the bard, Born out of time; All his accomplishment, From Nature's utmost treasure spent, Booteth not him.

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