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• Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
• It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be…
• If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.
• A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there…
• Grant us the wil1 to fashion as we feel, Grant us the strength to labor as we know, Grant us the purpose,…
• There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted…
• This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.
• And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains.
• Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic…
• Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of…
• The written word is everything.
• But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

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