To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.
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When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.John Drinkwater
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For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.
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If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.
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Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.
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The Government does not have a policy on this, neither, to the best of my knowledge, did the previous Government.
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