"As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis."
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"The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence."
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"When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere accumulated, and not trulycumulative treasure; where immortal works stand side by side with anthologies which did not survive their month, and cobweb and mildew have already spread from these to the binding of those; and happily I am reminded of what poetry is,--I perceive that Shakespeare and Milton did not foresee into what company they were to fall. Alas! that so soon the work of a true poet should be swept into such a dust-hole!"
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"But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire."
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"The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity."
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"There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,--is, in form as well as substance, poetry; and a volume which should contain the condensed wisdom of mankind need not have one rhythmless line."
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"The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence."
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"Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier race, have to laya train and pile up faggots that may not after prove in the least combustible!"
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"It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry."
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"I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection."
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"In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down."
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"Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite."
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"Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality."
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"For a poet, style is the only morality."
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"You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy."
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"True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful."
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"If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go to the Poet's home."
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"The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question."
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"It is the unspecified 'you' of modern love poems that I am mostly concerned with here. At least, the addressee is commonly a lover, and the very fact that the name is withheld is offered as a guarantee of the closeness and significance of the relationship."
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"Poetry surprises us with what we already know."
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