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“A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.”

Littles Doe Poetry Pleasure Clear Poet Approach Bottom Dare Determined Remove Veils Trifles Mariners

Author:E. B. White

“That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.”

Ifs Giving Poetry Pleasure Because Of You

Author:Horace

“Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.”

Poetry House Pleasure Feet Poet Forgotten Dust Ruined Mansions Lodges

Book:Essays on the Poets: And Other English Writers

Source: Essays on the Poets: And Other English Writers

“It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.”

Has Beens Poetry Difficult Pleasure Sorrow Radiance

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.”

Poetry Song Pleasure Sweet Brotherhood Verses

Author:John Keats

“Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.”

Thinking Art Poetry Pleasure Reader Convinced Sensations Ingredients Passages Inability Deceived Admiring

Book:Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

“For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").”

Joy Poetry Three Literature Bits Pleasure Objects Poetic Quarters Guessing Suppressing

Book:On Literature

Source: On Literature