"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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"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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"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."

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"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."

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"And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious."

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"Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast."

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"Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents."

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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."

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"Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history."

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"For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties."

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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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"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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