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Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

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

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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 is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.

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O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake.

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

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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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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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

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If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

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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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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

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The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

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And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

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Let your poem be kept nine years.

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That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

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

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