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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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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I haven't always been vocal about my feelings, especially in a relationship.
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You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ... Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment.
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A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
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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.
