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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