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(To break the pentameter, that was the first heave) More
... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets,... More
... intensity commands form. More
... it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are—until the poem—nameless... More
... passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry. More
... the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extrapoetic ends, constitutes misuse....... More
... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings... More
... to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each... More
... woman is frequently praised as the more “creative” sex. She does not need to make poems,... More
...stare into the lake of sunset as it runs
boiling, over the west past all... More
A bard whom there were none to praise,
And very few to read. More
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou
Beside... More
A breeze discovered my open book
And began to flutter the leaves to look
For a poem there... More
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was... More
A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can... More
A glass of papaya juice
and back to work. My heart is in my
pocket, it is Poems by Pierre... More
A higher class, in the estimation and love of this city- building, market-going race of mankind,... More
A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our... More
A needless Alexandrine ends the song,
That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. More
a painful privacy
learning to live without words.
E.P. “It looks like... More
A poem ... begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness....... More
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is... More
A poem is like a person. Though it has a family tree, it is important not because of its... More
A poem is one undivided, unimpeded expression fallen ripe into literature, and it is undividedly... More
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. More
A poem should be equal to:
Not true.

For all the history of grief
An empty... More
A poem should be palpable and mute
As a globed fruit,
Dumb
As old medallions to the... More
A poem should not mean
But be. More
A poet can read. A poet can write. A poet is African in Africa, or Irish in Ireland, or French on... More
A poet can survive everything but a misprint. More
A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former... More
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet... More
A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying,... More
A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena... More
A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or... More
A poet would a-wishing go,
And he wished love were thus and so.
“If but it were,” he... More
A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he... More
A poet’s object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either... More
A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments,... More
A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to... More
A Sonnet is a moment’s monument,—
Memorial from the Soul’s eternity
To one dead... More
A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be... More
A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with... More
A tattered copy of Johnson’s large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the... More
A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots... More
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain... More
A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and... More
A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests,... More
A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex. More
Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring. More
After all, poets shouldn’t be their own interpreters and shouldn’t carefully dissect their... More
After great pain, a formal feeling comes— More
After Shelley, Byron and Scott, you know, one cannot care about other poets. More
Ah wretched We, Poets of Earth! but Thou
Wert Living the same Poet which thou’rt... More
Ah, but to play man number one,
To drive the dagger in his heart,
To lay his brain upon... More
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is... More
All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from... More
All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part, the poet in me.... If I must not, because of... More
All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us... More
All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer. More
All the charm of all the Muses
often flowering in a lonely word; More
All the chosen coin of fancy
flashing out from many a golden phrase; More
All the strong agonized men
Wear the hard clothes of war,
Try to remember what they are... More
All things can tempt me from this craft of verse:
One time it was a woman’s face, or... More
All think what other people think;
All know the man their neighbor knows.
Lord, what... More
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions... More
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose. More
All ye poets of the age,
All ye witlings of the stage,
Learn your jingles to... More
Almost any noble verse may be read, either as his elegy or eulogy, or be made the text of an... More
Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and... More
Although I have come close on forty-nine,
I have no child, I have nothing but a... More
Always be a poet, even in prose. More
Always polite, fastidiously dressed in a linen duster and mask, he used to leave behind facetious... More
An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften the... More
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness... More
An editor once said to me, “If I didn’t know that you, a woman, had written these poems, I... More
and a man climbing
must scrape his knees, and bring
the grip of his hands into play. The... More
And cried, ‘Before I am old
I shall have written him one
Poem maybe as cold
And... More
And don’t worry about your lineage
poetic or natural. More
And he who dribbled couplets like a snake
Coiled to a lithe precision in the sun
Is missing. More
And here I am, the
center of all beauty!
writing these poems!
Imagine! More
And me happiest when I compose poems:
Love, power, the huzza of battle
are something, are... More
And mighty poets in their misery dead. More
And no matter how all this disappeared,
Or got where it was going, it is no... More
And now my work is done, which neither the anger of
Jove, nor fire, nor sword, nor the... More
And now,
in this poem, or chopped prose, not any better,
I realize, than those troubled... More
And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes... More
And one is of an old half-witted sheep
Which bleats articulate monotony, More
And since the average lifetime—the relative longevity—is far greater for memories of poetic... More
And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: More
And the Harvard students in the brick
hallowed houses studied Sappho in cement rooms.
And... More
And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all... More
And we may be led, then, upward through more
Powerful forms of poetry, past columns
With... More
And when all bodies meet
In Lethe to be drowned,
Then only numbers sweet
With endless... More
And when we can with Meeter safe,
We’ll call him so, if not plain Ralph,
For Rhime the... More
And would you be a poet
Before you’ve been to school?
Ah, well! I hardly thought... More
And, in those offices, my doggerel
Was not set up in blunt ten-point, nor read
By a... More
And, Wordsworth, both are thine: at certain times
Forth from the heart of thy melodious rhymes. More
Art expresses the one, or the same by the different. Thought seeks to know unity in unity; poetry... More
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. More

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