Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.
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The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.
Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.
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The foremost watchman on the peak announces his news. It is the truest word ever spoken, and the phrase will be th fittest, most musical, and the unerring voice of the world for that time.
It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them that they are undeniably the work of a single all-knowing master.
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Language is the archives of history.. Language is fossil poetry.
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Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
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Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock.