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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?
George Crabbe
Quotes , Source: The Village (bk. I)
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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!
Henry Austin Dobson
Quotes , 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.
John Dryden
Quotes , Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. II,, l. 412), "Thick and Thin"
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Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
John Fletcher
Quotes , Source: Queen of Corinth (act IV, sc. 1)
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
John Fletcher
Quotes , 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.
Richard Watson Gilder
Quotes , Source: The Sonnet
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
Jean Cocteau
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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.
Wallace Stevens
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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.
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.
E. M. Forster
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No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Horace
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