Great poets seldom make bricks without straw. They pile up all the excellences they can beg, borrow, or steal from their predecessors and contemporaries and then set their own inimitable light atop the mountain.
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Art very possibly ought to be the supreme achievement, the ‘accomplished’, but there is the other satisfactory effect-that of a man hurling himself at an indomitable chaos and yanking and hauling as much of it as possible into some sort of order (or beauty) aware of it both as chaos and as potential.
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Birth: | 30th October, 1885 |
Death: | 1st November, 1972 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Critic, Poet |
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