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"Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind."
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"That men, who might have tower'd in the vanOf all the congregated world, to fanAnd winnow from the coming step of timeAll chaff of custom, wipe away all slimeLeft by men-slugs and human serpentry,Have been content to let occasion die,Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium."
"My love is a winter's mistgently dissolvingthrough the windowat the nape of your neck."
"Poems can getsleepless tooand becomethe loneliest thingin the universe."
"Whatever you get out of poetry - take it. take it. take it. Words are better off felt than understood."
"I do think that poetry is important though, if you don't strive at it, if you don't fill it full of stars and falseness."
"But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy waysI cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet..Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves."
"May this poetrybe the homeyou will someday come back to."
"The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors. The great poets are also to be known by the absence in them of tricks and by the justification of perfect personal candor. How beautiful is candor! All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor."
"Poetry keeps mein a highly drunken stateof divinity."
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"We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age."
"The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power."
"The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state."
"The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators."
"Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world."
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