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Every old poem is sacred.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin’d shed?
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florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.
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For dear to gods and men is sacred song. Self-taught I sing; by Heaven and Heaven alone, The genuine seed of poesy are sown.
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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.
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For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
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For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.
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For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses.
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For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
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For, of all compositions, he thought the sonnet Best repaid all the toil you expended on it.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry. [Lat., Musaeo contigens cuncta lepore.]
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So ‘Bonnie Doon’ but tarry: Blot our the epic’s stately rhyme, But square his Highland Mary!
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He murmurs near the running brooks a music sweeter than their own.
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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
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He who finds elevated and lofty pleasures in the feeling of poetry is a true poet, though he has never composed a line of verse in his entire lifetime.
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He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.
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Here are only numbers ratified; but, for the elegancy, facility, and golden cadence of poesy, caret.
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Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.
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