William Cowper Quotes About Poetry

Quotes about: Poetry

• There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

  William Cowper

  Pain, Poetry, Poetic

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 2 'The Timepiece' l. 285

• Made poetry a mere mechanic art.

  William Cowper

  Art, Poetry, Mechanic

  'Table Talk' (1782) l. 654 (on Pope)

• The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

  William Cowper

  Art, Passion, Poetry

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