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Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?: B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990)
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "1984", first sentence
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
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But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.: William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
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.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
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 emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965), "Tradition and the Individual Talent", II (The Sacred Wood, 1922)
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), Essay on Robert Frost, quoted in N. Y.. Times: Obit-Editorial, April 1982
A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.: Fontenelle
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.: Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)

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