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

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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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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng

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Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

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

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The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.

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

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I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

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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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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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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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The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

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Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

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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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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 comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.

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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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