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“Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.”

Art Poet Equal Regard Painter License

Author:Horace

“I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.”

Humans Sound Impossible Poet Equal Tasks Originals Ancient Venture Rhyme Translations Closing Ingenuity Couplets

Book:The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence

Source: The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence

“If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere -- probably more than the rest of the world combined. Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations -- many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)

“For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal.”

Years Five Poet Equal Hundred

Author:Walther von der Vogelweide

“Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.”

Children Poetry Literature Language Parent Poet Equal Treats Affair

Book:Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry

Source: Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry

“Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.”

Term Poet Solitude Equal Crowds Active Multitudes

Author:Charles Baudelaire