The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
Man makes holy what he believes.
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.
Man is what he reads.
He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
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