Augustus William Hare Quotes About Poetry
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If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while the other bodies forth a troop of dragoons with drawn sabres and white-plumed helmets.
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Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.
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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
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There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.
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The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?
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