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Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.

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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 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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I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest.

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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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I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie.

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

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I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

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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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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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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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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

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Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.

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There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

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Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

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The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

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Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

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