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“What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone.”

Giving Writing Done Gone Fate Modern Poet Critics Wipe Spit Slate

Author:Thomas Hood

“In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.”

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

“All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.”

Ifs Has Beens Gone Poet Wings Originality Feathers Stolen Countrymen Plagiarism Milton Indebted

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred.”

Source: One Thousand and One Nights - Complete Arabian Nights Collection (Delphi Classics)

“Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it, Before that brief gleam of its life be gone.”

Ifs Soul Shows Life Is Beauty Gone Poet Mirrors Proof Satisfied Compare Solitary Swans Gleam Moralist

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them.”

Talking Gone Alive Poet Mermaid Taverns

Author:Gregory Orr

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