Famous Quotes about poetry

Matthew Arnold quote #308 from Dover Beach and Other Poems

Ah love let us be trueTo one another for the world which seemsTo lie before us like a land of dreamsSo various so beautiful so newHath really neither joy nor love nor lightNor certitude nor peace nor help for painAnd we are here as on a darkling plainSwept with confused alarms of struggle and flightWhere ignorant armies clash by night.
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William Shakespeare quote #391 from A Midsummer Night's Dream

Lovers and madmen have such seething brainsSuch shaping fantasies that apprehendMore than cool reason ever comprehends.The lunatic the lover and the poetAre of imagination all compactOne sees more devils than vast hell can holdThat is the madman the lover all as franticSees Helens beauty in a brow of EgyptThe poets eye in fine frenzy rollingDoth glance from heaven to earth from earth to heavenAnd as imagination bodies forthThe forms of things unknown the poets penTurns them to shapes and gives to airy nothingA local habitation and a name.
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William Shakespeare quote #483 from Romeo and Juliet

O serpent heart hid with a flowering faceDid ever a dragon keep so fair a caveBeautiful tyrant feind angelical dove feather raven wolvish-ravening lamb Despised substance of devinest show just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint an honourable villain
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William Shakespeare quote #438 from Shakespeare's Sonnets

Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration findsOr bends with the remover to remove.O no it is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never shakenIt is the star to every wandring barkWhose worths unknown although his height be taken.Sonnet 116
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote #310 from Sonnets from the Portuguese

How do I love thee Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach when feeling out of sightFor the ends of being and ideal grace.I love thee to the level of every daysMost quiet need by sun and candle-light.I love thee freely as men strive for right.I love thee purely as they turn from praise.I love thee with the passion put to useIn my old griefs and with my childhoods faith.I love thee with a love I seemed to loseWith my lost saints. I love thee with the breathSmiles tears of all my life and if God chooseI shall but love thee better after death.
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Pablo Neruda famous quote #176

Dont go far off not even for a daybecause I dont know how to say it - a day is longand I will be waiting for you as inan empty station when the trains areparked off somewhere else asleep.Dont leave me even for an hour because thenthe little drops of anguish will all run togetherthe smoke that roams looking for a home will driftinto me choking my lost heart.Oh may your silhouette never dissolveon the beach may your eyelids never flutterinto the empty distance. Dont LEAVE me fora second my dearest because in that moment youllhave gone so far Ill wander mazilyover all the earth asking will youcome back Will you leave me here dying
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