Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Quote by Thomas Hardy

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There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may...

Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may...

A love without indiscretion is no lover at all.

A love without indiscretion is no lover at all.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the...

Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the...

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars...

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars...

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly...

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly...

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far...

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far...

If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far...

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far...

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending...

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending...

You was a good man, and did good things.

You was a good man, and did good things.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far...

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far...

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument...

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument...