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Poet Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in…
- Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.
- The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.
- The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly…
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