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“Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.”

Love May Two Causes Poet Sorrow Privilege Contemporary Absolutely Nothing

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.”

Ends Causes Poet Muse

Book:The Poems of Alexander Pope: The Dunciad (1728) & The Dunciad Variorum (1729)

Source: The Poems of Alexander Pope: The Dunciad (1728) & The Dunciad Variorum (1729)

“[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.”

Long Matter Age Causes Sound Numbers Poet Fit Tragedy Faults Notes Musical Delight Invention Prime Italian Quantity Verses Rejected Rhyme Wretched Avoided Meter Lame Syllables Oratory

Author:John Milton

“I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head.”

Poetry Causes Lines Pay Attention Poet Pay Attention Floats

Author:Gwendolyn Brooks

“They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause.”

Law Poetry Speak Language Causes Poet Mere Greed Folly

Book:The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis

Source: The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis

“To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or forfeit, causes, as the taste dies, joy.”

Joy Certain Dies Causes Poet Taste Anxiety Appetite Forfeit

Author:Rene Char

“There are poets who believe that you shouldn't engage at all in any cause. And there's something to be said for that. Because you don't want to - I think most political poetry is very bad. And it's very bad because you know too much to start with. You have a sense that you're right, and you're trying to tell other people what's right. And I think that's always kind of fundamentalism, and I don't like it.”

People Thinking Knows Want Trying Believe Kind Said Political Causes Too Much Poet Poetry Is Fundamentalism

Author:W. S. Merwin