“Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.”
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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
