William Wordsworth Quotes
A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
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I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
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I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.
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I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.
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I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.
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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
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No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
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One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting them up and leaving it all behind me to start over again.
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Danny Ferry did a very good job when he was here and put the franchise up to a certain level, as did Mike Brown, and his contract had ended after five years, and, ultimately, both sides decided they wanted to do other things. No hard feelings at all there.
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Guilt kept me going. It was impossible not to blame myself for what had happened, but even guilt was a comfort. It was a human feeling, a sign that I was still attached to the same world that other men lived in.
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I turned on the pillow with a little moan, and at this juncture Jeeves entered with the vital oolong. I clutched at it like a drowning man at a straw hat.
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Back in the day people made music to go on tour. They didn't make music to make a video.
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I shoot with a few different camera's. A Sony A6000 with several lenses and a Lumix LX100 with a beautiful Leica lens. I like to travel light so I can have it with me most of the time. I really try and document all the places we travel to.
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I think, certainly, Barack Obama has created an opportunity for America to understand that diversity is a blessing, diversity is a strength. It isn't necessarily something to be concerned about. And I think, at the end of the day, we're going to learn that this country operates best when it celebrates and surrounds itself and appreciates diversity, and doesn't shun it.
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A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.
