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Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.
It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains.
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.
A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.
To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.
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.
The written word is everything.
Grant us the wil1 to fashion as we feel, Grant us the strength to labor as we know, Grant us the purpose, ribbed and edged with steel, To strike the blow.
This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.
To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.
There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.
