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William C. Bryant

"Eloquence is the poetry of prose."

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"Eloquence is the poetry of prose."

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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

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"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."

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"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."

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"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."

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"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."

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"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

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"Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad."

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"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"

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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."

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"Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook."

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"The groves were God's first temples."

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"Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign."

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"The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within."

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"Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness."

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"Eloquence is the poetry of prose."

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"Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger."

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"And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death."

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"Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully."

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"Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep."

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