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O! for a Muse of fire, that would ascend

 

O! for a Muse of fire, that would ascend

 

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder

 

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder

 

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

 

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

 

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

 

At non effugies meos iambos.

 

They carried him 2 not to bury him: They carried him down to crown him…. The poet flourished here, disheveled, Who would not bow before votive lamps But to the common spade.

 

One-woman waterfall, she wears Her slow descent like a long cape And pausing, on the final stair Collects her motions into shape.

 

One-woman waterfall, she wears Her slow descent like a long cape And pausing, on the final stair Collects her motions into shape.

 

A poem should not mean But be.

 

A poem should not mean But be.

 

It’s not the basic I that the poet is after but the essential you.

 

All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word.

 

All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word.

 

He said likewise That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies, That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

 

Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable, Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat.

 

Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful.

 

All night have the roses heard The flute, violin, bassoon; All night has the casement jessamine stirr’d To the dancers dancing in tune; Till a silence fell with the waking bird, And a hush with the setting moon.

 

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection, no more.

 

Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.

 

Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.

 

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.