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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.
A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.
Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.
Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother.
But every human path leads on to God;
He holds a myriad finer threads than gold,
And strong as holy wishes, drawing us
With delicate tension upward to Himself.
Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.
The weary August days are long;
The locusts sing a plaintive song,
The cattle miss their master's call
When they see the sunset shadows fall.
Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art; there is a lack of sincerity, of irresistible impulse in both the poet and the, composer.
The imagination never dies.
Give us a man of God's own mould
Born to marshall his fellow-men;
One whose fame is not bought and sold
At the stroke of a politician's pen.
Give us the man of thousands ten,
Fit to do as well as to plan;
Give us a rallying-cry, and then
Abraham Lincoln, give us a Man.
The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.
Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.
A poet must sing for his own people.
Worth, courage, honor, these indeed
Your sustenance and birthright are.
Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
O fresh-lit dawn! immortal life!
O Earth's betrothal, sweet and true!
The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple.
Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.
Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.
Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould.