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“Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar, are perhaps forgotten by most people; or else they are guarded in some secret place of memory because they were too much like visitations by the gods to be mixed with everyday thinking.”

People Thinking World Moments Memories Secret Too Much Poet Findings Originals Everyday Forgotten Familiar Unfamiliar Outside World Guarded Visitation Secret Places

Book:The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men: Forty-Four Years of Exploring Psychoanalysis

Source: The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men: Forty-Four Years of Exploring Psychoanalysis

“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.”

Should Writing Purpose Strong Sound Attention Poet Draws Defeat Stranger Impression Familiar Occasions Delightful Transmit Coarse

Book:The Lives of the English Poets

Source: The Lives of the English Poets

“Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.”

Purpose Poet Defeat Familiar

Book:The Lives of the English Poets

Source: The Lives of the English Poets

“A dreamer of the common dreams, A fisher in familiar streams, He chased the transitory gleams That all pursue; But on his lips the eternal themes Again were new.”

Dream Common Poet Eternal Lips Familiar Pursue Streams Theme Dreamer Gleam Transitory

Book:The Poems of William Watson

Source: The Poems of William Watson

“William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.”

Ifs Has Beens Said Sound Poet Musician My Favorite Familiar All Time Blake Sound Of Music

Author:Benjamin Clementine