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The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real. - Simone Weil To have great poets there must be great audiences too. - Walt Whitman A poet can survive everything but a misprint. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) In Spring the Poet is glad, And in Summer the Poet is gay; But in Autumn the Poet is sad, And has something sad to say. - Byron Forceythe Willson, Autumn Song For pointed satire I would Buckhurst choose, The best man with the worst-natures muse. - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, an illusion to Horace "Satire X", bk. I That mighty orb of song, The divine Milton. - William Wordsworth, Excursion (bk. I, l. 252) And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The Thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains--alas! too few. - William Wordsworth, Miscellaneous Sonnets, Pt. II, Scorn Not the Sonnet; Critic, You Have Frowned Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares,-- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays! - William Wordsworth, Personal Talk I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride; OF him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain side. - William Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence (st. 7) Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other. - William Wycherley Displaying page 7 of 7 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7]
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