 | Ernest Rhys - English poetry - 1927 - 342 pages
...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...wind, awakens to transitory brightness ; this power a rises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the... | |
 | Walter Edwin Peck - Poets, English - 1927 - 562 pages
...this to say about the origin of poetry: "Poetry is indeed something divine. ... A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot...inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness. . . . Poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man." Regarding these quotations,... | |
 | Walter Edwin Peck - Poets, English - 1927 - 544 pages
...this to say about the origin of poetry: "Poetry is indeed something divine. ... A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot...inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness. . . . Poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man." Regarding these quotations,... | |
 | Melvin Theodor Solve - Poetry - 1927 - 232 pages
...suffered the general fate of creation; there was a falling away from perfection; the mind of the poet in creation "is as a fading coal, which some invisible...inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness"; but this power which "arises from within, like the colour of a flower" comes and departs and the conscious... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1928 - 280 pages
...249. I SOMETIMES try to be miserable that I may do more work. Blake, L, I, 163. A MAN cannot say, "I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot...inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness. She/ley, 41 THE poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should... | |
 | Nicholas Hasluck - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 272 pages
...not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to a determination of the will. Man cannot say 'I will compose poetry'. The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is a fading coal which some invisible influence, like a constant wind, awakens to transitory brightness.... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poetry - 1994 - 752 pages
...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...brightness; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature... | |
 | Gary Saul Morson - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 356 pages
...to the determination of the will," writes Shelley. "A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry' . . . for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which...influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness."12 Whether it is an inconstant wind, a muse, the gods, or the subconscious that reveals... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Dialogues, Greek - 1994 - 796 pages
...fabo*^&. fa i& /kj/Ha^fl***) 45) A Defence of Poetry. 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 5 is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory... | |
 | Robin G. Schulze - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 270 pages
...again and again. "The mind in creation is as a fading coal, " writes Shelley in "A Defence of Poetry, " "which some invisible influence like an inconstant...brightness: this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed."19 Like the veil, Shelley's image of... | |
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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, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness... 
