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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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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.

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A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of...more

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The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

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It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has...more

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the mystic must be steadily told,—All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, in...more

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Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacl...more

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Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand an...more

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For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we ...more

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Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time. He is isolated among hi...more

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It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

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Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials.

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The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.

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Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.