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“He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.”

Writing Age Poetry Names Poet Sacred

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems fantastic and unreal to those who have lost the simple intuitions which are the test of reality; and, as it is often found at war with its age, so it makes no account of history, which is fabled by the daughters of memory.”

War Reality Seems Age Poetry Found Lost Speak Memories Simple Daughter Tests Accounts Intuition Fantastic Revolt Unreal Actuality Artifice

Book:Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

“Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.”

Has Beens Age Poetry Humanity Angel Guardian Guardian Angel

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“In the Augustan age ... poetry was ... the sister of architecture; with the romantics, and their heightened vowel-sense, resulting in different melodic lines, she became the sister of music; in the present day, she appears like the sister of horticulture, each poem growing according to the law of its own nature.”

Different Age Law Poetry Lines Growing Architecture Present Day Vowels Horticulture

Author:Edith Sitwell

“It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life.... [ellipsis in source] Illness, old age, and death--subjects as ancient as humanity--these are the subjects that the poet must speak of very nearly from the first moment that he begins to speak.”

Life Writing Firsts Humans Moments Age Poetry Humanity Speak Language Subjects Poet Source Protect Elements Tragedy Ancient Illness Old Age Human Life Tragic

Author:Louise Bogan

“True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.”

Age Poetry Artist Childhood Poet Old Age Great Art Great Artist

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.”

Author:Pablo Neruda

“grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.”

“I'm a poetry-skipper myself. I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country - make it any other two persons. This doesn't mean that I hate poetry. I don't feel that strongly about it. It only means that those who wish to communicate with me by means of the written word must do so in prose.”

Feels Mean Persons Two Country Age Poetry Hate Wish Written Weight I Hate Communicate Prose Boast Written Word Skipper

Author:Will Cuppy

“Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.”

Matter Age Poetry Modern Invention Verses Bondage Wretched Ornaments Lame

Author:John Milton

“We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.”

Age Poetry Wonderful Genius Proof Civilized Splendid

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.”

Inspirational Children Enough Age Poetry Suffering Poet Humorous Parenting Teenager Sarcasm Poetry Is Sarcastic Adolescence Teenage Girl Teenage Years Being Sarcastic

Author:John Ciardi

“Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.”

Men Mind Age Poetry Lines Poet Casts Verses Clay Defying

Author:Dave Beard

“The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.”

Knows May Long Has Beens Age School Past Poetry Purpose Individual Five Danger College Poet Creating Long Time Twenties Notes Busy Strikes Fifteen Twenty Five Short Time

Book:The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

Source: The Collected Prose of Robert Frost