"How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery."
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"Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak."
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"From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines."
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"Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation."
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"In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony."
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"Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy."
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"Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song."
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"A drainless shower Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power; 'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm."
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"We all scribble poetry."
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"And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?"
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"Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil."
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"Time has nothing to do with the matter."
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"One can be well-bred and write bad poetry"
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"All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things."
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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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"The poetry of speech."
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"Poetry should only occupy the idle."
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"Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride."
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