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- Nov 07, 2020
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Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
- Moods
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For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.
- Greatness
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Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.
- Commonly
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
- Mood
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So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.
- Nov 07, 2020
The written word is everything.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020