Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
More Quotes from Thomas Hardy:
There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct -- not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.Thomas Hardy
My spirit will not haunt the mound
Above my breast,
But travel, memory-possessed,
To where my tremulous being found
Life largest, best.
Thomas Hardy
She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.
Thomas Hardy
Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
Thomas Hardy
That mirror
Can test each mortal when unaware;
Yea, that strange mirror
May catch his last thoughts, whole life foul or fair,
Glassing it -- where?
Thomas Hardy
Fear is the mother of foresight.
Thomas Hardy
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