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Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.
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Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with, nothing else. They are as valuable in themselves as rope with nothing to be tied to.
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Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.
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Poetry is the breath of beauty.
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My poems please the brave : My poems, short and sincere , Have the force of steel Which forges swords .
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Poetry aims for an economy of truth - loose and useless words bust be discarded, and I found that these loose and useless words were not separate from loose and useless thoughts. Poetry was not simply the transcription of notions - beautiful writing rarely is.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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The great writer evokes the words
that buried within hearts of readers.
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A poet in my mind, needs to make a difference or his words don't mean a damn thing.
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A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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What raises great poetry above all else
it is the entire person and also the entire world.
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I look upon fine phrases as a lover. - John Keats
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I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips
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The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)
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(Jane Austen) is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness.
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History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself ...
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A poem's life and death dependeth still
Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.
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Shakespeare; the only man I'd ever love...
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One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years and are just as powerful today. Their words have changed me just as much as the people I actually met.
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Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.
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No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
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He is our man's-man of literature.
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Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives.
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A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
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To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside is the flawless triumph of art.
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I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.
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I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. I was like the wind.
-Lindo
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Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
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Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.
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There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing, no-one who can get so close to the vividness of other peoples interior selves.
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A man's most vivid emotional and sensuous experience is inevitably bound up with the language that he actually speaks. (New Bearings in English Poetry)
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A good poet's made as well as born.
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Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won't stop ...
Wildebeest of Words/Breathe In
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Words are cheap. Words are meaningless. And yet I know there is value in them, when they are sincere.
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Between Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and Dorothy Parker, everything worth saying has already been said, and said better than i could ever say it
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If [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men; ...
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A great word becomes a great sentence with great meaning from great writers who have a great imagination and who enchant greatness
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet
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The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.
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To my generation no other English poet seemed so perfectly to express the sensibility of a male adolescent. If I do not now turn to him very often, I am eternally grateful to him for the joy he gave me in my youth.
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Great words, arranged with cunning and artistry, could change the perceived world for some readers
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Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp the full dimension of ways of life other than our own.
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The poet thinks with his poem...
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The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.
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Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over my tongue like a lump of molten honeycomb, savouring the sweetness, the crackle, the crunch.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass
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Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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The poet should touch our heart by showing his own
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Homer and Shakespeare and Milton and Marvell and Wordsworth are but the rustling of leaves and crackling of twigs in the forest, and there is not yet the sound of any bird. The Muse has never lifted up her voice to sing.
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Words, words, words. Polonius
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Words Have The Power To Change Us
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poetry
melts my bones.
enters my blood.

and changes
its composition.
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Anything from Kipling
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Poetry is thoughts that breath and words that burn.
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Shakespeare
whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.
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poems are small moments of enlightenment
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States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It is this that makes genuine literature a vital force.
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The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.
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Poetry is man's best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.
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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
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A great writer weaves words like a painter mixes colors.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Words are miraculous things. They describe, captivate, provoke, vivify, encompass, pervade, inspire, preserve, and comfort. So much more than that, in fact, so as to leave me at a loss of ... words.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.
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I was born into a profession in which my love of words, chosen with care for their meaning and nuance, was extremely important, not only to me, but also to the people with whom I worked with.
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Goethe is always pithy.
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Words without poetry lack passion; words without passion lack persuasion; words without persuasion lack power.
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The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower, she thought.
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One always sees the soul through words. (22 July 1922)
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A word can be transformed into a coulour, light, a smell; it is the writer's task to use it in such a way that it serves, never fails, can never be ignored.
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Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.
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You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.
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In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf
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Guess now who holds thee?" - "Death," I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, - "Not Death, but Love." - ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
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An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.
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Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.
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Few novelists can be more scrupulous than Jane Austen as to the phrasing of the thoughts of their characters.
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A man was not judged by wealth alone, but by his ability to open the heart through words.
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Words writers choose are a glimmering reflection into our souls.
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Words lead to deeds, they prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.
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Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape from whatever realities were distressing me, and the only source of pride I knew, other vanities lying beyond my grasp. I couldn't do anything else well, but I could do words.
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There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.
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Words strike the air and the mind, they act on the senses and on the soul.
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The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers.
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Poetry is the image of man and nature
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We live and breath words"
- Will Herondale
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Poetry is capable of saving us.
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Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.
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A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings.
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Words are clothes that thoughts wear
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A novelist can get by on story, but the poet has nothing but the words.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Let us discuss why poetry has lost the power of making men brave.
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A Writer Drenched in Words is Never Caught in a Dry Spell
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Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.