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david cort - from "poetry and imagination" lyrics

poetry will never be a simple means, as when history or philosophy is rhymed, or laureate odes on state occasions are written. itself must be its own end, or it is nothing. the difference between poetry and stock poetry is this, that in the latter the rhythm is given and the sense adapted to it; while in the former the sense dictates the rhythm. i might even say that thе rhyme is there in thе theme, thought and image themselves. ask the fact for the form. for a verse is not a vehicle to carry a sentence as a jewel is carried in a case: the verse must be alive, and inseparable from its contents, as the soul of man inspires and directs the body, and we measure the inspiration by the music. in reading prose, i am sensitive as soon as a sentence drags; but in poetry, as soon as one word drags. ever as the thought mounts, the expression mounts.’t is cumulative also: the poem is made up of lines each of which fills the ear of the poet in its turn, so that mere synthesis produces a work quite superhuman

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