Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.
Thomas HardyRead
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
Interpretation
What this quote means
A poet's work should reflect universal emotions and personal thoughts.
This quote by Thomas Hardy suggests that a poet has the unique duty of capturing the timeless emotions felt by humanity while simultaneously infusing their own individual insights and experiences into their work. It emphasizes the balance between drawing from shared human experiences and offering a personal lens through which to convey those feelings.
Themes
PoetEmotionThoughtArtExpression
In practice
Example use cases
In a workshop on poetry, one might use this quote to encourage participants to find their unique voice.
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Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch herβdoubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.
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The trees have inquisitive eyes, haven't they? -that is, seem as if they had. And the river says,-'Why do ye trouble me with your looks?' And you seem to see numbers of to-morrows just all in a line, the first of them the biggest and clearest, the others getting smaller and smaller as they stand further away; but they all seem very fierce and cruel and as if they said, 'I'm coming! Beware of me! Beware of me!
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