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

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

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I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite continental poet, Daunty, Gouty and Shopkeeper, A.G., whom the generality admoyers in this that is and that this is to come.

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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

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Only poetry inspires poetry.

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

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

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It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

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Let your poem be kept nine years.

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The finest poetry was first experience.

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There were poets before Homer.

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Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

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

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