Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

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Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

The return makes one love the farewell

The return makes one love the farewell

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that...

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that...

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.

I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.

One must not trifle with love.

One must not trifle with love.

With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.

With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.

Great artists have no country.

Great artists have no country.

The return makes one love the farewell.

The return makes one love the farewell.

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far...

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far...

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain,...

Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain,...

Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other

Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other

While pensive poets painful vigils keep - Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep

While pensive poets painful vigils keep - Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep

The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage...

The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage...

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip...

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip...

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in...

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in...