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The poetry of speech.

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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

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

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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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A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

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

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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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Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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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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It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.

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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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The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.

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The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

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

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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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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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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