William Wordsworth Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Comfort Quotes

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

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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Poetry is music written for the human voice.

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

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Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.

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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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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

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Let your poem be kept nine years.

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Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate.

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

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All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially.

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Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.

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Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

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

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Poets are born, not paid.

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

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