Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
Adrian Mitchell
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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have. -
Prose talks and poetry sings. -
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls. -
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. -
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.
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