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The problem was his poetry, which was of the Naturalistic school and leaned heavily on the S alliteration: ‘Sad, sorrow-sunk survivors of a sadistic society, saturated with strong, stiff stench of stifling strife…’
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The repeated reminder of Mr. Pound: that poetry should be as well written as prose.
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The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.
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The time for Pen and Sword was when ‘My ladye fayre,’ for pity, Could tend her wounded knight, and then Grow tender at his ditty. Some ladies now make pretty songs, And some make pretty nurses: Some men are good for righting wrongs, And some for writing verses.
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The true poem is the poet’s mind.
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The truest poetry is the most feigning.
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The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine.
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The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse.
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The word neither diffident nor ostentatious, An easy commerce of the old and new, The common word exact without vulgarity, The formal word precise but not pedantic, The complete consort dancing together.
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The word Verse is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification… the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.
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The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.
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The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
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Then this immensive cup Of aromatic wine, Catullus, I quaff up To that terse muse of thine.
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There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And–every–single–one–of–them–is–right.
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There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed,–that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbus all these incorporated spirits and the perfume of all these flowers.
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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
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There is in Poesy a decent pride, Which well becomes her when she speaks to Prose, Her younger sister.
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There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.
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There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and the songs that must be sung.
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