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The language of poetry is the only speech which has in it the power of permanent impression

— George Gilfillan

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Every poet is partly creator and partly the creature of circumstances.

How dearly, at one time, and how cheaply at another, does Genius purchase immortal fame!

The language of imagination is the native language of man. It is the language of his excited intellect, of his aroused passions, of his devotion, of all the higher moods and temperaments of his mind.

Perhaps the life of every thinking man may be divided into three eras —
the era of admiration
the era of action
the era of repose

Too great this largess from thy hand I know
Yet ask that some few drops of it may light
And listened to thy voice, and in it found
The very Spring and Soul of Poetry

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