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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes or fails to come in the first conception and revision only affects the detail and ornament alas!
Poetry is a sword of lightning ever unsheathed which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
Quotes By Percy Bysshe Shelley
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War is the statesman's game the priest's delight the lawyer's jest the...
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Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in...
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We look before and after And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter...
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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it...
Quotes About Poetry
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He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to...
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Poetry asks people to have values form opinions care about some other part...
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For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly...
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I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good...
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All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently link by link with sweat and...
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I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
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Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.