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...vous rapelle en meme temps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LETTER FROM PARIS. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

PROBABLY no one has ever attempted prose writing wherein he has endeavored to convey his ideas by metaphors, without feeling the force of Voltaire's complaint "En l'ecrivant meme l'idee m'echappe." And if this is true of prose writing, where words are not restricted, how much more must just be the complaint in the case of poetry, where, in the choice of words, sense and jingle seem ever to be having a Kilkenny cat-fight in the brain of the unfortunate devotee of the "Art of Poetry." And yet poets do unmistakably attain a skill in reconciling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OF POETRY, - ART VERSUS SPIRIT. | 11/21/1873 | See Source »

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