Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence …

Edmund Burke
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. ✨ James Prior, Edmund Burke (1826). Memoir of the Life and Character of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With Specimens of His Poetry and Letters and an Estimate of His Genius and Talents, Compared with Those of His Great Contemporaries. Enlarged to Two Volumes, p.511
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