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“The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.”

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Author:Matthew Arnold

“Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.”

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Book:A Poetry Handbook

Source: A Poetry Handbook

“Joy is a part of my process. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that poetry, as a practice, necessitates a sense of joy. It's exhilarating to come into contact with the things we write into being. And a real sense of play and abandon even when we are relying on hard-won technique, and even when the aim is deadly serious. How often do we get the excuse to stop, think, and then stop thinking altogether and try to listen to what sits behind our outside of our thoughts? Poets are lucky.”

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Author:Tracy K. Smith

“True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.”

Art Poetry Serious Spring Intimate

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.”

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Book: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

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

“A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.”

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Book:The poetics

Source: The poetics

“The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding.”

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Book:Kant's Critiques

Source: Kant's Critiques

“Ocean waters..oceans deep..Serious poets never sleep.”

Poetry Water Sleep Serious Poet Ocean Never Sleep Ocean Water

Author:Sally-Ann Roberts

“One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.”

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Author:Billy Collins

“The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.”

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Author:D. H. Lawrence

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