Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind.
Richard Weaver
The discipline of poetry may be expected first to teach the evocative power of words, to introduce the student, if we may so put it, to the mighty power of symbolism, and then to show him that there are ways of feeling about things which are not provincial either in space or time.
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All of us have had the experience of finding a particularly felicitous phrase in poetry and of feeling: This is what the world really means; he has hit it closer than anyone has ever hit it before.
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There is a sentimental poetry, and it will have to be exposed (not censored. Certainly; for to omit criticism of it would deprive us of our fairest chance to combat the sentimental rhetoric of the student's environment).
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