The poet’s business is not to describe things to us, or to tell us about things, but to create in our minds the very things themselves.
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But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
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