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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong

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Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine

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Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounce...more

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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

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Every word was once a poem.

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The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inhe...more

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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they ...more

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

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Language is fossil Poetry.

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The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

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Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or ci...more

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Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

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The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre. For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is...more

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Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.