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"As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines."
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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
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"I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican."
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"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."
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"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."
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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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"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."
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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
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"And she forgot the stars, the moon, and sun/ And she forgot the blue above the trees,/ And she forgot the dells where waters run,/ And she forgot the chilly autumn breeze;/ She had no knowledge when the day was done,/ And the new morn she saw not: but in peace/ Hung over her sweet basil evermore,/ And moisten'd it with tears unto the core."
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"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."
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"In the grueling light that passed for day..."
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"There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen."
Disparity
"I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read."
Books
"A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in."
Progress
"Nothing is so useless as a general maxim."
Generalization
"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."
People
"People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws."
Power
"That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy."
Government
"The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners."
Man
"There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom."
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"I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies."
Ambition
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