"Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one."

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"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."

"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."

"One could do worse than be a swinger of birches."

"Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet."

"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."

"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere neither piping bird nor peeping dawnDisturbs the eternal sleep,But in the stillness far withdrawnOur dreamless rest for evermore we keep."

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"Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter."

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