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“Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.”

World May Long Together Lasts Dies Language Lines Failing Poet Bounds Tongue Envy Vain Verses Prophecy Boast

Author:Edmund Waller

“When a poet mentions the spring, we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their verdure, the linnets to warble forth their notes of love, and the flocks and herds to frisk over vales painted with flowers: yet, who is there so insensible of the beauties of nature, so little delighted with the renovation of the world, as not to feel his heart bound at the mention of the spring?”

Knows World Feels Writing Heart Littles Poet Flower Spring Notes Bounds Delighted Herds Flocks Nature Beauty Grove Insensible Renovation Zephyr

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay

“the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man; it is the sublime vision, which cannot be studied, but must ever be celestially granted. In the comic the gods see their own being reflected as in a mirror, and while the tragic poet is bound by strict laws, they will allow the comic artist a freedom as unlimited as their own.”

Men World Art Law Artist Vision Comedy Divine Poet Mirrors Bounds Granted Comic Tragic Strict Sublime Unlimited Condescension Strict Laws

Book:Winter's Tales

Source: Winter's Tales

“Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng”

Long Poetry Poet Bounds March Leap

Book:Selected Poetry

Source: Selected Poetry

“Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.”

Art Poetry Sound Poet Pure Complexes Bounds Symbols Poetry Is Conventional Arbitrary

Author:Ezra Pound

“To a large degree, we are still bound to the modern scientific spirit, that characterizes reality merely by its material and mechanic aspects, without including life, consciousness and the intimate communion with that which poets, musicians and artists bring us in their magnificent works.”

Stills Reality Spirit Artist Consciousness Modern Poet Materials Degrees Musician Aspect Environmental Bounds Including Intimate Magnificent Communion Mechanic Stewardship

Author:Leonardo Boff

“He saw wan Woman toil with famished eyes; He saw her bound, and strove to sing her free. He saw her fall'n; and wrote "The Bridge of Sighs"; And on it crossed to immortality.”

Eye Fall Saws Poet Bounds Bridges Immortality Toil Sigh

Author:William Watson