Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me
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It is that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith.
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to metre.
The many men, so beautiful!And they all dead did lie:And a thousand thousand slimy thingsLived on; and so did I.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.
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Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.
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In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decreeWhere Alph, the sacred river, ranThrough caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
Our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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Not the poem which we have read, but that to which we return, with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry.
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The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.