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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

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

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

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Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

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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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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 is a mug's game.

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

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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

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The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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Poets are born, not paid.

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

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An undevout poet is an impossibility.

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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 is either something that lives like fire inside you

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