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- I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
- Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
- For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
- Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
- Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
- The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.