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poetry despair born
Jose Bergamin The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
poet persons
Jorge Luis Borges He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse.
poetry lines serious
Jonathan Swift From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.
poetry has-beens
Henry David Thoreau My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
poetry mastery logic
James Russell Lowell It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.
poet theory feels
John Ciardi What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.
poet lays values
Caroline Norton Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.
poetry would-be world
Muriel Rukeyser If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.