D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Self Quotes, Poetry Quotes

It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.

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Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.

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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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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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What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.

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An undevout poet is an impossibility.

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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

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

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

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

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

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And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

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Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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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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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

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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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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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