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that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith

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A man’s desire is for the woman, but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

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Poetry: the best words in the best order.

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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make u...more

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Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

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No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

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Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose - words in their best order poetry - the best ...more

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In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from...more

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The one red leaf, the last of its clan,That dances as often as dance it can,Hanging so light, and hanging so high,On the topmost twig that looks up at...more

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Then all the charm Is broken--all that phantom-world so fair Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread, And each mis-shape the other.

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Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

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A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!

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To be loved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.