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Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)
“poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge”
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William Wordsworth
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“Their very names will breathe poetry forever.”
Vachel Lindsay
(1879–1931) American poet
What It Means to Be a Poet in America (1926)
Context: There were three great Virginia poets in the very beginning — George Washington, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson. “What!” you say. “We do not even know the names of their publishers. They were not poets!”
Well, how do you know? Did you ever really read them? What do you know about it? Their very names will breathe poetry forever.
“I wake to "magnolias sweet and fresh",
Lines of poetry on my breath”
"Firefly" on Greta Gaines (1999); the phrase in quotes is one earlier found in "Strange Fruit" (1937) by Abel Meeropol, famously sung by Billie Holiday.
Context: I wake to "magnolias sweet and fresh",
Lines of poetry on my breath,
You were here but you have stolen away.
My inspiration is an evening star,
So come to me wherever you are,
I will wait for you tonight alone in the dark…
Woodrow Wilson
(1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
“Ideals of College” http://books.google.com/books?id=_VYEIml1cAkC&pg=PA15&dq=%22You+are+not+here+merely%22, Swarthmore (25 October 1913)<!--PWW 28:439-442-->
1910s
Context: You are not here merely to prepare to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.
“Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.”
William Wordsworth
(1770–1850) English Romantic poet
“What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.”
John Updike
(1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic