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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Why then we should drop into poetry.
Why then we should drop into poetry.
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning read more
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
When the brain gets as dry as an empty nut,
When the reason stands on its squarest toes,
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When the brain gets as dry as an empty nut,
When the reason stands on its squarest toes,
When the mind (like a beard) has a "formal cut,"--
There is a place and enough for the pains of prose;
But whenever the May-blood stires and glows,
And the young year draws to the "golden prime,"
And Sir Romeo sticks in his ear a rose,--
Then hey! for the ripple of laughing rhyme!
Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.
Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.
