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Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!
O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!
The bright...
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
Source: God's Grandeur.
-- Gerard...
The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.
Source:...
Towery city and branchy between towers;
Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarm?d, lark-charm?d, rook-racked,...
What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and...
A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard by stealing what he has a taste...
We have learned the answers, all the answers:
It is the question that we do not know.
A poem should not mean
But be.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life,...
Poets. . . are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.
Source:...
Grace is given of God, but knowledge is born in the market.
Source: The Bothie of...
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.
Source: Say Not the Struggle Nought...
Action will furnish belief, - but will that belief be the true one? This is the point, you...
Tis better to have fought and lost,
Than never to have fought at all.
Source:...
Thou shalt not covet; but tradition
Approves all forms of competition.
Source:...
Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly...
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Source: In Pearls of...
Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
Source:...
Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
Source: In The Speaker's...