When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.
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The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.
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This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.
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Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
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Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
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Moon-washed apples of wonder.
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