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“The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.”

Men Humans Life Is Artist Humanity Passion Healing Poet Sorrow Stress Storm Rejoice Superiority

Book:The Florentine painters. The Central Italian painters

Source: The Florentine painters. The Central Italian painters

“It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet. They become proofs of original genius only as far as they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by that passion; or when they have the effect of reducing multitude to unity, or succession to an instant; or lastly, when a human and intellectual life is transferred to them from the poet's spirit.”

Source: Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

“The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.”

Moments Political Life Is Moral Poet This Life Planes Our Time Synthesis Moral Life

Author:Rose Macaulay

“Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same imaginative commitment as the poet brings to a special field.”

Art Moments Life Is Special Fields Poet Commitment Imaginative Moments Of Life Live Every Moment

Author:Kathleen Raine

“Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is like quicksilver, our vocabulary like steel. Sometimes a consummate poet succeeds in rendering the quality of life in words. For the rest of us, this is not possible.”

Sometimes Life Is Emotion Quality Our Lives Poet Succeed Fixed Steel Vocabulary Quality Of Life Life Is Like Rendering

Author:Laura Huxley

“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

“This life is a war we are not yet winning for our daughters' children. Don't do your enemies' work for them. Finish your own.”

Children War Life Is Poetry Winning Enemy Feminism Poet Daughter Perseverance This Life Our Daughter

Book:Moon Is Always Female

Source: Moon Is Always Female

“The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.”

Life Art Life Is Poetry Grows Poet Perfection Manifestation Internals Sentiments Formal

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“One of Still Lifes many achievements is its paradoxical mix of intensity and stillness. Alexander Longs visions of landscape, identity and "History itself, a joke that no one gets" are simultaneously meditative and alert, restless and focused. This is a smart, compassionate poet. Still Life is a mesmerizing new book.”

Stills Book Life Is Vision Identity Poet Achievement Smart Jokes Focused Landscape Intensity Compassionate Stillness Restless Paradoxical New Books Still Life Mesmerizing

Author:Terrance Hayes