Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

The finest poetry was first experience.

The finest poetry was first experience.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Writing a poem is discovering

Writing a poem is discovering

For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a
biography, the life of a read more

For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a
biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no
life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its
sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme?
Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,
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Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme?
Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,
By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.