Letitia Elizabeth Landon on Poetry
1802–1838 England
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Poetry is the immortality of earth: where shall we look for our noblest thoughts, and our tenderest feelings, but in its eternal pages?
To connect the external object with the internal emotion is the sweetest privilege of poetry.
Philosophers are moral, and poets are picturesque about the country.
The imagination, which is the source of poetry, has in every country been the beginning as well as the ornament of civilization. It civilizes because it refines.
Why, the very element of poetry is faith—faith in the beautiful, the divine, and the true.
That charm of genius, triumph of high art;
Poetry's divination, which reveals
All nature's secrets, such as influence
The heart of man.
In this consists the difference between painting and poetry : the painter reproduces others, — the poet reproduces himself.
Mysterious enthusiasm, Love !
The heart's supremest power;—which doth combine
Within itself religion, poetry,
And heroism.
But these days
Of visible poetry have long been past!—
No fear that the young hunter may profane
The haunt of some immortal
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
The poets told thy birth
Was welcomed upon earth
By the sweet multitude of shining flowers,
By bursting buds, green leaves, and sunny hours.