Poesy Quotes
12 quotes by 10 authors
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Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in an age like…
— Hugh Miller
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Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with…
— Hugh Miller
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How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter…
— William Davenant
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Ay, Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy.
— William Shakespeare
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Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life beyond our fate,And…
— Lord Byron
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Music is inarticulate poesy.
— John Dryden
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O for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to…
— John Keats
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As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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For Poesy alone can tell her dreams, With the fine spell of words alone can save Imagination from the sable charm And dumb enchantment. Who…
— John Keats
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The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises,…
— Jean Paul
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Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made…
— Philip Sidney
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I love thee - I love thee! 'Tis all that I can say; It is my vision in the night, My dreaming in the day;…
— Kemis Khan
Who Wrote These Poesy Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 12 Poesy Quotes as follows: