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

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All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

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

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

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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

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

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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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Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.

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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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Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

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

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The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense--the life of Blake or of Dante--taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music.

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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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Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

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

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