At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
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The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.