If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as 'addled mosses dank'), no Tennysonianness of speech nothingnothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass
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