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“Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.”

Poetry Water Modern Poet Add Ink

Book:Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims

Source: Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims

“The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.”

Poetry Literature Speak Water Poet Mark Socialism Socialist Auden Kipling

Author:George Orwell

“The interpretations of science do not give us this intimate sense of objects as the interpretations of poetry give it; they appeal to a limited faculty, and not to the whole man. It is not Linnaeus or Cavendish or Cuvier who gives us the true sense of animals, or water, or plants, who seizes their secret for us, who makes us participate in their life; it is Shakspeare [sic] … Wordsworth … Keats … Chateaubriand … Senancour.”

Men Giving Whole Poetry Water Animal Secret Objects Plant Appeals Intimate Faculty Interpretation Wordsworth Linnaeus

Book:Essays in Criticism

Source: Essays in Criticism

“And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection.”

Poetry Water Poet Battle Reflection Pool Power Of Love

Book:A Wild Peculiar Joy: The Selected Poems

Source: A Wild Peculiar Joy: The Selected Poems

“He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.”

Poetry Water Theory Mad Oil Redemption Persist Attempting Reconcile Obstinate Oil And Water

Book:Poems and Essays of Edgar Allan Poe: Including Memoir

Source: Poems and Essays of Edgar Allan Poe: Including Memoir

“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.”

World Heart Soul Poetry Water Bones Your Soul Decay Marrow Impervious Oleanders Fluoride

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.”

“No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.”

Long Poetry Water Written Food Please Drinkers Funny Drinking Drinking Funny Drinking Wine Liquor Funny Drinking With Friends Wine Drinkers

Author:Horace

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

Poetry Water Sleep Serious Poet Ocean Never Sleep Ocean Water

Author:Sally-Ann Roberts

“A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.”

Needs Soul Poetry Understanding Water Accepting Mystery Senses Lakes Sensations Swim Shore Diving Bright Star

Author:John Keats

“Poem for Liu Ya-tzu I cannot forget how in Canton we drank tea and in Chungking went over our poems when leaves were yellowing. Thirty-one years ago and now we come back at last to the ancient capital Peking. In this season of falling flowers I read your beautiful poems. Be careful not to be torn inside. Open your vision to the world. Don't say that waters of Kumming Lake are too shallow. We can watch fish better here than in the Fuchun River in the south.”

World Years Lasts Beautiful Poetry Fall Water Forget Vision Watches Flower Years Ago Rivers Seasons South Ancient Fishes Careful Tea Thirty Lakes Be Careful Shallow Torn Drank Your Beautiful

Author:Mao Zedong

“Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time.”

Poetry Fall Water Sun Forests Falling Leaves

Book:Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life & Cars

Source: Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life & Cars