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Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates. With Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes, Historical and Explanatory

“Gascoigne, Ben Jonson, Greville, Raleigh, Donne, Poets who wrote great poems, one by one, And spaced by many years, each line an act Through which few labor, which no men retract. This passion is the scholar's heritage”

Men Years Poetry Passion Lines Poet Labor Heritage Scholar Donne Raleigh

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others at any rate, and however attended with smoke: but now I must have all sense, and cannot, for the sake of five righteous lines, forgive a thousand absurd ones.”

Made Poetry Literature Lost Lines Deals Fire Five Poet Thousand Forgiving Rate Sake Absurd Smoke Righteous Obscurity

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.”

Has Beens Poetry Literature Black Lines Our Lives Color Racism Censorship

Book:Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

Source: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

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

Poetry Lines Written Poet Draws Delight Noble Poetry Is Poetic Sentiments Writing Poetry Poetry By Famous Poets

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

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

“That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.”

Inspirational Poetry Night Left Lines Mouths Sexy Breathe

Author:Andrea Gibson

“Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.”

Needs Art Use Form Poetry Culture Language Lines Color Painting Expression Abstract Poetic Abstract Art Wording

Author:Etel Adnan

“Take 7 emcees put em in a line And add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme It'll take 7 more before I go for mine And that's 21 emcees ate up at the same time.”

Thinking Poetry Lines Mines Brother Add Hip Hop Rap Ems Rhyme Emcee

Author:Rakim

“A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.”

Want Writing Poetry Lines Poet Letters Tired Prose

Book:The Dame School of Experience, and Other Papers

Source: The Dame School of Experience, and Other Papers

“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

“I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God. But all I achieved was awkward shrieking. Not even the pure shriek of a reed in the rain.”

Wanted Poetry Lines Pure Rain Awkward Orchestra Hollow Reeds

Book:Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

“Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.”

Ends Lasts Poetry Fall Lines Goes On Prose Poetry Is

Author:Jeremy Bentham

“The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces and inspirations he has received can make itself felt to other human beings in the white spaces, so to speak, between the lines of his verse. This is a great and precious gift; but if the poet remains content with his gift, if he persists in worshipping the beauty in art and nature without going on to make himself capable, through selflessness, of apprehending Beauty as it is in the divine Ground, then he is only an idolater.”

“I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a couch, and think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries. Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences, in sections of two, three or four lines each.”

Thinking Looks Two Poetry Three Lines Four Method Lays Misery Sentences Bother Over You Sections Couches Notebook

Author:Allen Ginsberg

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