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On Whitman - His poetry refreshed me like harsh salt spray.

— Sidney Lanier

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The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West.

The Marshes of Glynn (1878)

Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.

Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.

The incalculable Up-and-Down of Time.

My principle is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism.

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)

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.

T. S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity...but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

George Chapman Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Michael Faraday

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