"I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still."
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"Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position ... The stopgap Luigi Paryson's 'zeppa' accepts its own banality, because without the speed that the banal allows up, it would slow up a passage that is crucial for the outcome of the work and its interpretation."
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"What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning."
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"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth."
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"The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights."
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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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"A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream."
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"A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits."
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"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."
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"The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say"
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"My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something."
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"Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention."
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"The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense--the life of Blake or of Dante--taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music."
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"Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe."
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"Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject."
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"The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets."
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"for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him."
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"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."
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"Poetry must be as well written as prose."
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"To break the pentameter, that was the first heave"
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