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“The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms; And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.”

Mind Doe Use Feelings Light Clear Poet Sweet Source Mark Pens Variation Bosoms Needles

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake.”

Beautiful Beauty Sadness Poet Sweet Longing Awake Beautiful Things Wisest Sweet Music

Author:Richard Chenevix Trench

“Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved earth more lovely; her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.”

World May Done Earth Rich Too Much Tree Poet Sweet Flower Rivers Lovely Golden Pleasant Tapestry Brazen

Book:An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy): Revised and Expanded Second Edition

Source: An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy): Revised and Expanded Second Edition

“Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting and combining as he pleases, each man reads his own peculiar lesson according to his own peculiar mind and mood.”

Men Mind Poet Sweet Please Lessons Mere Mood Peculiar Cunning Alphabet Combining Interpreter Suppliers

Book:Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Source: Pierre; or The Ambiguities

“The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the '60s: Independent fire!”

Years Literature Language White Fire Poet Sweet Flower Picks Independent Folks Forty Lovable Incense

Author:Gwendolyn Brooks

“I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.”

Happiness Poetry Trouble Poet Sweet Beats Rhyme Me Alone Daylight

Book:The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition