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“But the abstract conception
Of private experience at its greatest intensity
Becoming universal, which we call poetry,
May be affirmed in verse.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Even in ordinary speech we call a person unreasonable whose outlook is narrow, who is conscious of one thing only at a time, and who is consequently the prey of his own caprice, whilst we describe a person as reasonable whose outlook is comprehensive, who is capable of looking at more than one side of a question and of grasping a number of details as parts of a whole.”
—G. Dawes Hicks (18621941)
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