Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman he loves!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
A really good poem is full of music.
Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.
Poetry is composing for the breath.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.
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