Alisha Marquette Quotes
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When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.
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We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.
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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.
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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.
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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.
