For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, -…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). Essays and Lectures, p.450, Library of America
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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). Essays and Lectures, p.450, Library of America

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