My "must-have " was poetry. From the first, life meant that to me. And, fortunately, poetry is not purchasable material, but an atmosphere in which every life may expand. I found it everywhere about me. The children of old New England were always surrounded, it is true, with stubborn matter of fact,--the hand to hand struggle for existence. But that was no hindrance. Poetry must have prose to root itself in; the homelier its earth-spot, the lovelier, by contrast, its heaven-breathing flowers.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
Some of my choicest extracts were in the first volume of collected poetry I ever owned, a little red morocco book called "The Young Man's Book of Poetry." It was given me by one of my sisters when I was about a dozen years old, who rather apologized for the young man on the title-page, saying that the poetry was just as good as if he were not there.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
But by the end of the first quarter of the present century, the great poetical billow, which was not indeed caused by, but received an impulse from, the great political billow, the French Revolution (for they were cognate or co-radical movements), had quite spent itself, and English poetry was at a comparatively low ebb. The Poetical Revolution had done its work. A poetical interregnum of a few years' duration followed, in which there appeared to be a great reduction of the spiritual life of which poetry is the outgrowth.英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
The poet could hardly have employed a more effective metaphor in which to embody the idea of mental swerving. The several monologues all going over the same ground, are artistically justified in their exhibiting, each of them, a quite distinct form of this swerving. For the ultimate purpose of the poet, it needed to be strongly emphasized. The student of the poem is amazed, long before he gets over all these monologues, at the Protean capabilities of the poet's own intellect. It takes all conceivable attitudes toward the case, and each seems to be a perfectly easy one.英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
Introduction I. A Brief Sketch of Lanier's Life II. Lanier's Prose Works III. Lanier's Poetry: Its Themes IV. Lanier's Poetry: Its Style V. Lanier's Theory of Poetry VI. Conclusion英文原著 · 《Select Poems of Sidney Lanier》
The Woman of the World possesses, I should explain, the daintiest of feet. "It is heavier than you think," replied the Woman of the World. "George persists I ought to put up with him because he is a true poet. I cannot admit the argument. The poet I honestly admire. I like to have him about the place. He lies on my drawing-room table in white vellum, and helps to give tone to the room. For the poet I am quite prepared to pay the four-and-six demanded; the man I don't want.英文原著 · 《Tea-table Talk》
Last time I was at the Gold Space Loft, I went to a poetry slam, and I wound up slamming a poet.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Because if you do, grab one of these poems that doesn't follow any of the rules of poetry,美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Is this really how we honor the Irish, some of our greatest writers and poets?美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》