With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.
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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
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Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity.
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
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Poetry doesn't belong to those who write it, but to those who need it.
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The poet is the priest of the invisible.
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.
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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 words in the best order.
