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“Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.”

Poetry Speak Saws Heard Milton

Author:John Ruskin

“Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which it dwells. Genii, unknown to Arabian fable, wait at the portal. Whatever is most precious from the loom or the mine of fancy is poured at its feet. Love, purified by contemplation, visits and cheers it; unseen musicians are heard in the dark; it is Psyche in the palace of Cupid.”

Hands Poetry Waiting Dark Heard Feet Mines Broken Taste Musician Contemplation Fancy Cheer Fabric Unseen Magician Palaces Fables Wands Portal Cupid Arabian

Book:Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature

Source: Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature

“Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.”

Art Poetry Heard Poetry Is Eloquence

Book:Autobiography, and Other Writings

Source: Autobiography, and Other Writings

“I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay”

Poetry Heard Poet Gay Sick Bows Hysterical Palette Fiddle

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of man to realize is gagged at the peril of the group that binds him. He is the true revolutionary: he builds a new world.”

Men World Poetry Speak Realizing Heard Groups Poet Instinct Myth Revolutionary New World Peril Speaks Out

Author:Babette Deutsch

“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.”

Thinking Poetry Heard Loneliness Singing Mermaid Trousers Flannels

Author:T. S. Eliot

“People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.”

People Writing Poetry Reading Heard Burning Reading Books Burning Bush

Author:Li-Young Lee

“If not then you must be trying to hear us and in such cases we cannot be heard. We remain in the darkness, unseen. In the center of unpeeled bananas, we exist. Uncolored by perception. Clothed to the naked eye. Five senses cannot sense the fact of our existence. And that's the only fact. In fact, there are no facts.”

Ifs Trying Facts Eye Poetry Existence Cases Darkness Five Heard Perception Senses Naked Unseen Bananas Five Senses Naked Eyes

Book:The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop

Source: The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop