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Poetry is itself a thing of God;
He made his prophets poets;and the more
We feel of read more
Poetry is itself a thing of God;
He made his prophets poets;and the more
We feel of poesie do we become
Like God in love and power,--under-makers.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.
The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
Doeg, though without knowing how or why,
Made a still a blundering kind of melody;
Spurr'd boldly read more
Doeg, though without knowing how or why,
Made a still a blundering kind of melody;
Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin,
Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in;
Free from all meaning whether good or bad,
And in one word, heroically mad.
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
