Word: bobolink
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teacher, but not a mere preacher, not a mere pedagogue that puts before us the mere bare bones of a philosophy. The poet may be a teacher, but he will be a teacher who instructs by the indirection of beauty, by suggestion. The poet teaches as the bobolink teaches, by leaving upon us the inspirations of beautiful harmonies, so that the soul, without knowing it is elevated and noble...
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