Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement ... says heaven and earth in one word ... speaks of himself and his... predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This far outstripped the other; Yet ever runs she with reverted face,... And looks and listens for the boy behind: For he, alas! is blind! O'er rough and smooth with even step he passed, And knows not whether he be first or last.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On the wide level of a mountain's head, (I knew not where, but 'twas some faery place),... Their pinions, ostrich-like, for sails outspread, Two lovely children run an endless race,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Romance, as currently used, then denotes what is unreal or unlikely, or at all events not present, in contrast to what is scientif...ically true and accessible to the senses here and now. Or it is, in its purest expression, what partakes of the marvelous, the extreme, the unusual. That is why advertisement (in a grotesque and inflated form) is a pure expression of the romantic mind. Indeed, there is nothing so "romantic" as advertisement. Advertisement is the apotheosis of the marvelous and the unusual; likewise of the scientifically untrue. The spirit of advertisement can boost lives and has its feverish being in a world of hyperbolic suggestion; it is also the trance or dreamworld of the hypnotist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of mortality,... And sick of prey, yet howling on for more, Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »