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“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a very fine poet, or else that it was written by someone who is not a poet at all. In the case of the former, the lines, the images, though they are inherent in each other, leap up and give one this shock of delight. In the case of the latter, they lie flat on the page, never having lived.”

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Author:Edith Sitwell

“A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which I found in the Introduction. I learned them as if they were so many poems. I used to keep this old volume close to my pillow; and I amused myself when I awoke in the morning by reciting its jingling contrasts of iambic and trochaic and dactylic metre, and thinking what a charming occupation it must be to "make up" verses.”

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Book:A New England girlhood

Source: A New England girlhood

“The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.”

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Author:Franz Grillparzer

“He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.”

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Book:The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).

Source: The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).

“Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.”

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Author:William Blake

“Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.”

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Author:John Cage

“The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.”

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Book:The lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works

Source: The lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works

“Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.”

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Author:John Masefield

“For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.”

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Author:Robert Bly