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“All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.”

Past Poetry Thousand

Book:The Enigma of Stonehenge

Source: The Enigma of Stonehenge

“Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.”

Past Poetry Poetry Is Flood Polite Telescopes Blur Sample Selective Contingency Distillation

Book:Deep Play

Source: Deep Play

“Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of texts are being produced that call for budding readers rather different from those who studied literature in the past.”

Writing Kind Different Past Used Poetry Literature Fiction Teach Reader Critical Theoretical Writing Fiction

Author:Nicholas Royle

“One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.”

Said Past Poetry Literature One Thing Poet Criticism They Said

Author:Philip Larkin

“And we may be led, then, upward through more Powerful forms of poetry, past columns With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference. Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms Unhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real.”

People Ifs May Littles Art Real Country Past Form Poetry Powerful Poet Indifference Columns Posters Peeling

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“It is a great feeling to know that from a window I can go to books to cans of beer to past loves. And from these gather enough dream to sneak out a back door.”

Knows I Can Book Enough Feelings Dream Past Poetry Doors Window Beer Sneak Back Doors Great Feelings Beatnik Past Love

Book:Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle: Pocket Poets Number 8

Source: Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle: Pocket Poets Number 8

“For poetry, he's past his prime, He takes an hour to find a rhyme; His fire is out, his wit decayed, His fancy sunk, his muse a jade. I'd have him throw away his pen, But there's no talking to some men.”

Men Past Poetry Hours Talking Fire Wit Fancy Pens Prime Muse Rhyme Jade

Book:Select poems of Prior and Swift [ed. by C. Bathurst].

Source: Select poems of Prior and Swift [ed. by C. Bathurst].

“Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.”

Past Poetry History Aboriginal Living In The Past

Book:The dawn is at hand: selected poems

Source: The dawn is at hand: selected poems

“There comes a point in your life when you realize: Who matters, Who never did, Who won't anymore, And who always will. So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.”

People Life Matter Reason Past Poetry Realizing Worry Future Letting Go Reason Why Our Future Our Past Your Future Your Past People In Your Life Stop Worrying

Author:Adam Lindsay Gordon

“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

“My past is being burnt down I've shown you the ash Is it me, or are we more than just friends now? I have to ask.”

Past Poetry Friends Burning New Life Ash Song Lyrics New Love More Than Friends

Book:Senses

Source: Senses

“How is it that what is actually present and transpiring is commonly perceived by the common sense and understanding only, is bare and bald, without halo or the blue enamel of intervening air? But let it be past or to come, and it is at once idealized. It is not simply the understanding now, but the imagination, that takes cognizance of it. The imagination requires a long range. It is the faculty of the poet to see present things as if, in this sense, also past and future, as if distant or universally significant.”

Past Poetry Time Understanding Imagination Present

Book:The Journal, 1837-1861

Source: The Journal, 1837-1861