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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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"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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"Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence."
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"Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed."
Fortitude
"Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale."
Resilience
"Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure."
Poetry
"The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic."
Conservative
"The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me."
God
"Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions."
Perception
"Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young."
Life
"In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning."
Optimism
"The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale."
Freedom
"Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man."
God
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