"The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely."

Experience, Expression

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"The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely."

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"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."

Karl Shapiro, American Poet

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"I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that."

Eva Longoria, American Actress

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"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!"

Karl Liebknecht, German Politician

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"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."

Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch Philosopher

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"I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me."

Celine Dion, Canadian Musician

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"We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives."

Carla H. Krueger, American Author

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"Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds."

Rene Daumal, French Writer

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"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events."

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"It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature."

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"To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential."

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"There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so."

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"We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible."

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"The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely."

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"A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being."

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"The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music."

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"The written word is everything."

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"Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them."

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