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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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... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

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The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made.

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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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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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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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Let your poem be kept nine years.

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Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.

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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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Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate.

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

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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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A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

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For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.

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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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