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And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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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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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?

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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

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

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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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I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite continental poet, Daunty, Gouty and Shopkeeper, A.G., whom the generality admoyers in this that is and that this is to come.

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The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs.

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It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.

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The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.

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

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

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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

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

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