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

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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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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

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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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To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates o...more

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Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same

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Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the languag...more

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She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.

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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