The poet’s business is not to describe things to us, or to tell us about things, but to create in our minds the very things themselves.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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