“The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of beauty. To gaze with rapture at the stars That in the skies are glowing; To see the gems of perfect dye That in the woods are growing, And more than sage astronomer, And more than learned florist, To read the glorious homilies Of Firmament and Forest.” WorldLooksStarsPerfectGrowingSkyPoetDutyWoodsForestsGloriousDelightfulSageLicenseGlowingRaptureGemsAstronomersFirmamentDelightful Things Book:The Masquerade: And Other Poems Source: The Masquerade: And Other Poems
“Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to other things.” ShouldWritingPurposeStrongSoundAttentionPoetDrawsDefeatStrangerImpressionFamiliarOccasionsDelightfulTransmitCoarse Book:The Lives of the English Poets Source: The Lives of the English Poets
“There shall be poets! When woman's unmeasured bondage shall be broken, when she shall live for and through herself, man--hitherto detestable--having let her go, she, too, will be poet! Woman will find the unknown! Will her ideational worlds be different from ours? She will come upon strange, unfathomable, repellent, delightful things; we shall take them, we shall comprehend them.” MenWorldDifferentStrangePoetBrokenDelightfulBondageUnfathomableLet Her GoDelightful Things Author:Arthur Rimbaud