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...
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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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Over the inter glaciers,I see the summer glow,And, through the wild-piled snowdrift,The warm rosebuds below.
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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...
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Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
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Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of image...
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We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.
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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
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Every word was once a poem.
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The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inhe...
