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“I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.”
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“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.”
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“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
Robert Frost quotes (American poet, 1874-1963)
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“Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.”
A. E. Housman quotes (English Scholar and Poet, 1859-1936)
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“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity -it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
John Keats quotes (English Romantic Poet. 1795-1821)
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“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these”
Emily Dickinson quotes (American Poet who has been called the New England mystic, 1830-1886)
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“It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -- that is a life.”
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