Quotes on poetry - Page 144

The romantic poetry is a progressive universal poetry.

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Poetry is a process,a form of discovery, which if it serves a cause, transcends it.

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Poetry, a speaking picture... to teach and delight

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Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because in so doing it imitates the natural utterances of excitement.

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Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus, The conscience is converted into palms, Like windy citherns hankering for hymns.

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Poetry is the subject of the poem, From this the poem issues and To this returns. Between the two, Between issue and return, there is An absence in reality, Things as they are. Or so we say. But are these separate?

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Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead.

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But oh, Mesdames, if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and tetrameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!

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Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

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Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.

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Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.

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...when Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety,it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath,but a crown that fadeth not away.

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Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.

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