"It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland."
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"And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away."
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"I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say."
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"Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for."
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"The poet doesn't invent. He listens."
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"Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss."
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"When power corrupts, poetry cleanses"
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"Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. Also, it began through the process of seeing, and feeling, and hearing, and smelling, and touching, and then remembering--I mean remembering in words--what these perceptual experiences were like, while trying to describe the endless invisible fears and desires of our inner lives."
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"Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings."
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"Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."
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"Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public"
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"Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones."
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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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"The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics."
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"There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired."
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"Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols."
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"I've written some poetry I don't understand myself."
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"A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet."
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"Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you."
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"'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know."
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