Honore De Balzac Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Sorrow Quotes

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

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The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made.

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

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Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

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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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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

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One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.

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

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Why then we should drop into poetry.

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

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There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

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

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I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

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Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

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Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

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