When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.
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Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.John C. Ransom
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They know they cannot at once, waiving all immunities, realize the standards of style and at the same time meet the requirements of their meter.
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He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.
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