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“Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.”

Energy Quality Poet Cold Genius Judgment Amplify

Book:Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

Source: Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

“Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant. He is tempted to say many things which might better be omitted, or, at least shut up in fewer words.”

Might Imagination Poet Judgment Faculty Fewer Tied Verses Blank Shut Up Tempted Outrun Easiness Spaniels

Book:The works of John Dryden now first collected ...

Source: The works of John Dryden now first collected ...

“What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.”

Art Facts Imagination Poet Exercise Judgment Historian Arrangements Selection

Book:Practicing History: Selected Essays

Source: Practicing History: Selected Essays

“Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.”

Darkness Fire Poet Terrible Judgment Rivers Prison Terror Vain Seats Regions Fables Agitate

Author:Seneca the Younger