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“It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.”

Eye Fall Poet Spring Rose Islands Electricity Mice Competing 4th Of July July Locomotives Niagara Niagara Falls Coney Island

Book:Is 5

Source: Is 5

“The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths, all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.”

Reason Form Humanity Poet Mountain Spring Fairs Depth Ancient Forests Streams Majesty Chasms

Book:The Maid of Oreleans; The Bride of Messina; Wilhelm Tell; Demetrius; The Piccolomini; The Death of Wallenstein; Wallenstein's Camp

Source: The Maid of Oreleans; The Bride of Messina; Wilhelm Tell; Demetrius; The Piccolomini; The Death of Wallenstein; Wallenstein's Camp

“Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.”

Knows Sometimes Poet Spring Soil Muse Shifting Pun Matching Vowels Consonants Assonance

Author:Louis Untermeyer

“n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was never a verse made or a picture seen. This suggests that God is no more idle now than He was at the beginning, but that He is still and forever shaping the human chaos into the instruments and means of beauty.”

Humans Mean Doe Made Stills Artist Forever Poet Spring Instruments Chaos Painter Artistic Atmosphere Verses Idle

Author:William Dean Howells

“The modern sensibility attempts to drain the contents of experience; these Greek poets strive to state the fact so poignantly that it becomes an ever-flowing spring as Sappho says, "More real than real, more gold than gold.”

Real States Facts Modern Poet Spring Gold Strive Greek Sensibility Drains

Book:Classics Revisited

Source: Classics Revisited

“When a poet mentions the spring, we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their verdure, the linnets to warble forth their notes of love, and the flocks and herds to frisk over vales painted with flowers: yet, who is there so insensible of the beauties of nature, so little delighted with the renovation of the world, as not to feel his heart bound at the mention of the spring?”

Knows World Feels Writing Heart Littles Poet Flower Spring Notes Bounds Delighted Herds Flocks Nature Beauty Grove Insensible Renovation Zephyr

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay

“My theory is that poems are written because of a state of emotional irritation. It may be present for some time before the poet is conscious of what is tormenting him. The emotional irritation springs, probably, from subconscious combinations of partly forgotten thoughts and feelings. Coming together, like electrical currents in a thunder storm, they produce a poem. ... the poem is written to free the poet from an emotional burden.”

Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

“The source of each accordant strain Lies deeper than the Poet's brain. First from the people's heart must spring The passions which he learns to sing; They are the wind, the harp is he, To voice their fitful melody,-- The language of their varying fate, Their pride, grief, love, ambition, hate,-- The talisman which holds inwrought The touchstone of the listener's thought; That penetrates each vain disguise, And brings his secret to his eyes.”

Source: The Poems

“In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems and novels and stories spring from the same seed. It's not like, say, playing polo and knitting.”

Thinking Knows Wells Stories America Novel Poet Spring Seeds Novelists Playwright Knitting Polo

Author:Robert Penn Warren

“At Delphi I prayed to Apollo that he maintain in me the flame of the poem and I drank of the brackish spring there.”

Poetry Prayer Poet Spring Flames Drank Apollo Delphi

Book:Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967

Source: Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967

“I envy no man's nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.”

Men Poetry Loss Poet Kings Spring Envy Rhyme Nightingales

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

“Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes 'pick up' accidentally, as your radio might pick up some unknown station. Poets feel that we are cut off from meaning by a thick, lead wall, and that sometimes for no reason we can understand the wall seems to vanish and we are suddenly overwhelmed with a sense of the infinite interestingness of things.”

Feels Humans Sometimes Reason Feelings Seems Might Universe Human Beings Cutting Magic Poet Wall Spring Picks Infinite Radio No Reason Mysticism Stations Thick Overwhelmed

Book:The Occult: A History

Source: The Occult: A History

“Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in spring, it lights the glowworm's lamp, it wakens the song of birds, and inspires the poet's lay. Even inanimate Nature seems to feel the spell, and flowers glow with the richest colours.”

Feels Light Seems Song Inspire Poet Flower Spring Bird Raises Lays Paint Colour Spells Butterfly Feathers Lamps Caterpillars Ethereal

Author:John Lubbock

“I don't think that you can say by any stretch of the imagination that all Wisconsin or Brooklyn-based poets write in a particular way. Similar sensibilities can spring up next to each other in the flower bed, or across oceans.”

Thinking Way Writing Next Imagination Particular Poet Flower Bed Ocean Spring Sensibility Brooklyn Wisconsin

Author:Matthea Harvey

“I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young poet.”

Thinking Firsts Children Young Stars Poet Spring Overhead Snowfall

Author:Sylvia Plath

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