"The great poet makes us feel our..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.
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“To be a man is to be a nonconformist.”
“When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.”
“Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.”
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“It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history.”
“A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.”
“My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.”