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Poetry is not made out of the understanding. The question of common sense is always: "What is it good for?" a question which would abolish the rose and be triumphantly answered by the cabbage.
Poetry is not made out of the understanding. The question of common sense is always: "What is it good for?" a question which would abolish the rose and be triumphantly answered by the cabbage.
Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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- James Russell Lowell
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- Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 203 · printed citation: Lowell · subject: Poetry
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