Samuel Johnson Quotes About Poetry
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The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.
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The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.
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Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.
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Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new: Endless labor all along, Endless labor to be wrong: Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
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