#poe

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

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Always be a poet, even in prose. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#always #even #poet #prose

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. ↗

— Robert Frost

#begins #homesickness #lump #poem #sense

Poetry is what gets lost in translation. ↗

— Robert Frost

#gets #lost #translation

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence? ↗

— James Thomson

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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth. ↗

— James Thurber

#before #believe #birth #cases #died

I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities. ↗

— Mary Timony

#confident #feel #i #just #more

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

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The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

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I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

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