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“It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.”

Knows Men World Doe Poetry Visible

Book:Of Poetry and Poets

Source: Of Poetry and Poets

“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

“At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd”

Ifs Knows Feels Has Beens Poetry Highest Likes Instance Odd Poetry Is Polish Doubtful Superb

Author:Walt Whitman

“If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.”

Ifs Knows May Doe Might Poetry Heaven Poet Horse Sticks

Author:Charles Ives

“Fire up your heart for the wind is getting cold, now it always gets cold for the riders of the night. When you carry that dream when you know what lonesome is looking for a home like a bird in flight.”

Knows Heart Home Dream Poetry Night Fire Wind Cold Bird Flight Riders Lonesome Birds In Flight

Author:Jon Stewart

“Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.”

Knows Poetry Memories Loss Cost

Author:Linda Ronstadt