 Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry". The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence,...  The National Review - Page 369edited by - 1856Full view - About this book
 | Leo Bogart - Business & Economics - 1995 - 401 pages
...Shelley expressed the same sentiments: A man cannot say, "I will compose poetry." The greatest poet cannot say it. For the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible muse, like the inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness. 56 The entire commercial... | |
 | Plato - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 268 pages
...Page references are to Shelley's poetry and prose, ed. DH Reiman and S. B. Powers (New York 1977). according to the determination of the will. A man...for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to brightness' (503-4). And Shelley implicitly... | |
 | Peter Brian Medawar - Science - 1996 - 260 pages
...think little of it. We look askance at poetry for the occasion, even for Royal occasions. For poetry 'is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according...compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it.' Still less can he say that he will compose joyful or lugubrious poetry, or poetry upon a given theme.... | |
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