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Singing and rejoicing,
As aye since time began,
The dying earth's last poet
Shall be the earth's last man.
Author: Alexander Anton von Auersperg ("Anastasius Grun")
Source: The Last Poet
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Poets are all who love,--who feel great truths,
And tell them.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. Another a a Better World)
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A poet not in love is out at sea;
He must have a lay-figure.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. Home)
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Happy the poet who with ease can steer
From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
[Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere
Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.]
Author: Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Source: L'Art Poetique (I, 75)
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Poets are sultans, if they had their will:
For every author would his brother kill.
Author: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery
Source: Prologues, according to Johnson
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Ah, poet-dreamer, within those walls
What triumphs shall be yours!
For all are happy and rich and great
In that City of By-and-by.
Author: Alonzo B. Bragdon
Source: Two Landscapes
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"There's nothing great
Nor small," has said a poet of our day,
Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve
And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. VII), probably referring to Emerson's "Epigram to History", "There is no great and
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O brave poets, keep back nothing;
Nor mix falsehood with the whole!
Look up Godward! speak the truth in
Worthy song from earnest soul!
Hold, in high poetic duty,
Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Dead Pan (st. 39)
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God's prophets of the Beautiful,
These Poets were.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Vision of Poets (l. 161)
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One fine day,
Says Mister Mucklewraith to me, says he.
"So! you're a poet in your house," and smiled.
"A Poet? God forbid," I cried; and then
It all came out: how Andrew slyly sent
Verse to the paper; how they printed it
In Poet's Corner.
Author: Robert Williams Buchanan
Source: Poet Andrew (l. 161)
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Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners
of nature.
Author: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Source: Caxtoniana (essay XXVII)
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And poets by their sufferings grow,--
As if there were no more to do,
To make a poet excellent,
But only want and discontent.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Miscellaneous Thoughts
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Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him,
Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,
Catullus scarcely has a decent poem,
I don't think Sappho's Ode a good example,
Although Longinus tells us there is no hymn
Where the sublime soars forth on wings more ample;
But Virgil's songs are pure, except that horrid one
Being with "Formosum Pastor Corydon."
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 42)
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A Poet without Love were a physical and metaphysical
impossibility.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Essays--Burns
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Most joyful let the Poet be;
It is through him that all men see.
Author: William Ellery Channing
Source: The Poet of the Old and New Times
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He koude songes make and well endite.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Source: The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 95)
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Who all in raptures their own works rehearse,
And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
Author: Charles Churchill
Source: Independence (l. 95)
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I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself
super-excellent.
[Lat., Adhue neminem cognovi poetam, qui sibi non optimus
videretur.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (V, 22)
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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit
Of poets triumphs over it.
Author: Abraham Cowley
Source: On the Praise of Poetry (ode I, l. 13)
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And spare the poet for his subject's sake.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Charity (last line)
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Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared,
And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard;
To carry nature lengths unknown before,
To give a Milton birth, asked ages more.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Table Talk
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains,
Which only poets know.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. II, l. 285)
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They best can judge a poet's worth,
Who oft themselves have known
The pangs of a poetic birth
By labours of their own.
Author: William Cowper
Source: To Dr. Darwin (st. 2)
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Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name,
But England's Milton equals both in fame.
Author: William Cowper
Source: To John Milton
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Sure there are poets which did never dream
Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream
Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose
Those made not poets, but the poets those.
Author: Sir John Denham
Source: Cooper's Hill
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