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“A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.”

Men Feelings Certain Poet Ought Pure Degrees Permanent Sane Great Poet Rectify Consonants

Book:Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode

Source: Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode

“The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head.”

Ifs Has Beens Facts Body Form Loss Common Poet Ought Cost Musician Tools Stones Fundamentals Myth Superiors Painter Symbols Substance Savages Effectiveness Pierce

Book:Tristes Tropiques

Source: Tristes Tropiques

“The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.”

Ifs Poetry Attention Cases Poet Ought Faults Definitions Prose Relative Verses Propriety

Book:Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes

Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes

“As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.”

Knows Wells Reason Poetry Speak Healing Beauty Grace Objects Poet Ought Mathematics Medicine Proof Medical Mathematical Poetry Is Mathematical Beauty

Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

“The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.”

May Has Beens Poetry Poet Ought Pens Historian

Book:Don Quixote de la Mancha

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha

“Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.”

Thinking Looks Artist Literature Deals Poet Perspective Ought Highest Merit Statues

Book:The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Essays, Letters and Memoirs (Illustrated): The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Tanglewood Tales, Birthmark, Ghost of Doctor Harris… (Including Biographies and Literary Criticism)

Source: The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Essays, Letters and Memoirs (Illustrated): The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Tanglewood Tales, Birthmark, Ghost of Doctor Harris… (Including Biographies and Literary Criticism)

“A poet is seldom hard up for advice. The worst part of it all is that sometimes the advice is coming from other poets, and they ought to know better.”

Knows Sometimes Hard Worst Advice Poet Ought

Author:Richard Hugo

“Horace, when he wrote the Ars Poetica, recommended that poets keep their poems home for ten years; don't let them go, don't publish them until you have kept them around for ten years: by that time, they ought to stop moving on you; by that time, you ought to have them right.”

Years Home Moving Poet Ought Ten Publish

Book:Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982-1988

Source: Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982-1988

“An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.”

Poet Ought Caught Technique

Book:Conversations with Stanley Kunitz

Source: Conversations with Stanley Kunitz

“When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes, and the worse the better; for an author, like a limbeck, will yield the better for having a rag about him: besides that, I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is the surtout of it) to make it bear well; and this is a natural account of the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad.”

Source: The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical

“You can recollect the sayings of great men, you treasure up verse of renowned poets; ought you not be equally profound in your knowledge of the words of God, so that you may be able to quote them readily when you would solve a difficulty or overthrow a doubt?”

Men May Able Doubt Poet Ought Difficulty Profound Solve Treasure Great Men Word Of God Verses Renowned

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.”

People Ifs Heart Hands Poet Ought

Author:Maya Angelou

“Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.”

People Trying Hard Poet Ought Admire Possessed

Author:James Broughton

“An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone ought to appreciate this. Then he has a deep sense of grievance . . .”

People Thinking Feels Writing Poet Ought Appreciate Grievance

Author:Stephen Spender

“For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?”

Knows Mind Wells Mean Poet Ought

Book:Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias

Source: Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias

“Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.”

Language Creation Poet Communication Ought Workers English Language Joints Manuals

Book:The complete works of George Orwell

Source: The complete works of George Orwell

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