We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.
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The written word is everything.John Drinkwater
The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.
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And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains.
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Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
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Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.
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If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.
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