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“Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.”

World Two Desire Blood Poet Solitude Toss

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate.”

Writing Humans Whole Dream Race Fate Poet Terrible Solitude Defeat Torn Propositions Eccentric

Book:Souvenirs and prophecies: the young Wallace Stevens

Source: Souvenirs and prophecies: the young Wallace Stevens

“[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.”

Poet Solitude Supreme Emily Sociability

Book:Where I've Been, and where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose

Source: Where I've Been, and where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose

“The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination.”

Imagination Poet Solitude Uniqueness Sensitivity

Author:Mieczyslaw Jastrun

“Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.”

Term Poet Solitude Equal Crowds Active Multitudes

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again of shattered towns--Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell-- their loneliness given away in poems, only their solitude kept.”

War Poetry Given Loneliness Poet Solitude Destruction Towns Goodbye Shattered Cabins

Author:Galway Kinnell

“From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.”

Night Dark Poet Solitude Dialogue Landscape Poetic Yield Diaries

Author:Salvatore Quasimodo

“As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. I try to hold both history and the wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.”

Trying Mind May Earth Values Animal Common Vision Magic Ignorance Poet Solitude Approach Our Time Soil Wilderness Ecstasy Tribes Rebirth Fertility Initiation

Author:Gary Snyder