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The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.

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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

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Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.

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There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which li...more

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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

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All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.

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Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams

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Language is fossil poetry

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We are wiser than we know.

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Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good sp...more

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Over the inter glaciers,I see the summer glow,And, through the wild-piled snowdrift,The warm rosebuds below.

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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give.

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The South-wind bringsLife, sunshine and desire,And on every mount and meadowBreathes aromatic fire;But over the dead he has no power,The lost, the los...more

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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong