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“Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.”

Mind Dream Poetry Morning Poetry Is Great Minds

Book:Memoirs of Celebrated Characters

Source: Memoirs of Celebrated Characters

“In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse”

Poetry Morning Poet Holy Verses Sober

Book:Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine

Source: Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Used Poetry Found Morning Poet Accounts Delight Copies Occupation Contrast Verses Volume Charming Introduction Dictionary Johnson Pillow Amused Reciting

Book:A New England girlhood

Source: A New England girlhood

“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”

Writing Poetry Morning Perfection Proof Afternoon Back Again Creativity And Writing Writing And Reading Reading Writing

Book:Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

“Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.”

Poetry Morning Early Morning

Book:Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems

Source: Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems

“Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green - the wattle's wedding dress - and Spring is near. Then suddenly it seems, one golden morning, the Bush awakes, a living thing. Flowers bloom, birds sing, and all the world puts on its gayest dress to greet the laughing Spring.”

“And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.”

Littles Poetry Dies Morning Study Poet Toads Baudelaire

Book:Last & Lost Poems

Source: Last & Lost Poems

“This morning came on to me, silver wings silhouetted against the child's sunrise.”

Children Poetry Morning Wings Silver Sunrise

Author:Jimi Hendrix