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A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.
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Poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious
attention than history.
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Poetry is itself a thing of God;
He made his prophets poets;and the more
We feel of poesie do we become
Like God in love and power,--under-makers.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (Proem, l. 5)
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'Twas he that ranged the words at random flung,
Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung.
Author: Bidpai (Pilpay)
Source: Anvari Suhaili, (Eastwick's rendering)
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You speak
As one who fed on poetry.
Author: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Source: Richelieu (act I, sc. 1)
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For rhyme the rudder is of verses,
With which, like ships, they steer their courses.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 463)
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Some force whole regions, in despite
O' geography, to change their site;
Make former times shake hands with latter,
And that which was before come after;
But those that write in rhyme still make
The one verse for the other's sake;
For one for sense, and one for rhyme,
I think's sufficient at one time.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 23)
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For florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,
Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto I, st. 3)
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The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Corsair (preface)
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Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Heroes and Hero Worship (3)
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For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a
biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no
life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its
sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Sir Walter Scott--London and Westminster Review
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In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column:
In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: The Ovidian Elegiac Metre
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Prose--words in their best order;--poetry--the best words in
their best order.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: Table Talk
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Made poetry a mere mechanic art.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Table Talk (l. 654)
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Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme?
Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,
By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?
Author: George Crabbe
Source: The Village (bk. I)
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Why then we should drop into poetry.
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: Our Mutual Friend (bk. I, ch. V)
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When the brain gets as dry as an empty nut,
When the reason stands on its squarest toes,
When the mind (like a beard) has a "formal cut,"--
There is a place and enough for the pains of prose;
But whenever the May-blood stires and glows,
And the young year draws to the "golden prime,"
And Sir Romeo sticks in his ear a rose,--
Then hey! for the ripple of laughing rhyme!
Author: Henry Austin Dobson
Source: The Ballad of Prose and Rhyme
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Doeg, though without knowing how or why,
Made a still a blundering kind of melody;
Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin,
Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in;
Free from all meaning whether good or bad,
And in one word, heroically mad.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. II,, l. 412), "Thick and Thin"
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The true poem is the poet's mind.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Essays--Of History
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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a
poem.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Essays--The Poet
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It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once
a poem.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Essays--The Poet
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The finest poetry was first experience.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Shakespeare
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Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
Author: John Fletcher
Source: Queen of Corinth (act IV, sc. 1)
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Author: John Fletcher
Source: Queen of Corinth (act IV, sc. 1)
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What is a Sonnet? 'Tis the pearly shell
That murmurs of the far-off, murmuring sea;
A precious jewel carved most curiously;
It is a little picture painted well.
What is a Sonnet? 'Tis the tear that fell
From a great poet's hidden ecstasy;
A two-edged sword, a star, a song--ah me!
Sometimes a heavy tolling funeral bell.
Author: Richard Watson Gilder
Source: The Sonnet
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It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Author: Paul Valery
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Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.
Author: Robert Gilfillan
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Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
Author: Jean Cocteau
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Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny.
Author: Mikhail Dudan
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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
Author: Wallace Stevens
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The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Author: Wallace Stevens
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Of trees I (Krishna) am the fig.
Author: Bhagavad Gita
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Author: Jean Cocteau
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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
Author: Samuel Mcchord Crothers
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
Author: E. M. Forster
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No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Author: Horace
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.
Author: Richard Rosen
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The poet... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
Author: Lionel Trilling
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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.".
Author: Robert Penn Warren
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For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.
Author: Maxwell Bodenheim
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Author: Edmund Burke
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When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Author: Joseph Joubert
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The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Author: Christopher Morley
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Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..
Author: Ogden Nash
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The job of the poet is to render the world--to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
Author: Mark Van Doren
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morning: that first sapphire dome of glow.
Author: C K Williams
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