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“Made poetry a mere mechanic art.”
William Cowper Quotes 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?”
George Crabbe Quotes Source: The Village (bk. I)
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“Why then we should drop into poetry.”
Charles Dickens Quotes 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!”
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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“The true poem is the poet's mind.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Essays--Of History
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“For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a
poem.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Essays--The Poet
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“It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once
a poem.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Essays--The Poet
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“The finest poetry was first experience.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Shakespeare
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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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“It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.”
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“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.”
Paul Valery Quotes |
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“Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.”
Robert Gilfillan Quotes |
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“Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.”
Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
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“Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.”
Jean Cocteau Quotes |
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“Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny.”
Mikhail Dudan Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“The poet is the priest of the invisible.”
Wallace Stevens Quotes |
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“Of trees I (Krishna) am the fig.”
Bhagavad Gita Quotes |
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“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.”
Jean Cocteau Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.”
Horace Quotes |
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