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“The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.”

Art Poetry Passion Sides Virtue Duty Poetry Is

Author:William Cowper

“Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.”

Art Poetry Virtue Fruit Verses

Author:Paul Valery

“In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language - the current crop of American poets necessarily give up on others.”

Source: Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry

“You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.”

Poetry Liberty Virtue Poet Pockets Humankind Life And Love

Author:John Adams

“Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.”

Thinking World Poetry Found Literature Virtue Poet Modesty

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of exteriorized attention, internal wholeness becomes Communion. By virtue of self-forgetfulness, Communion becomes Union.”

Life Mean Self Poetry Attention Virtue Unions Unity Awakening Internals Communion Wholeness Fullness Forgetfulness Invocation Self Forgetfulness

Author:David Truman

“Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.”

Men Moments Poetry Hope Learning Virtue Tradition Aids Wit Desert Spontaneous Grind Flocks Mills Anecdotes Truism

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)