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The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

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

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I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

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

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And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.

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The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.

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

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

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Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

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

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Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

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Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

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

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There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

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