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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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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

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The union of a want and a sentiment.

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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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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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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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Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

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The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.

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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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Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.

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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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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

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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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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

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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 fettered fetters the human race.

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

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