"Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine."

Poetry, Women, Life

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"Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine."

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"The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness."

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