“A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.” KindRealEmotionExpressionEssenceDivisionArtificialDeceived Book:The Lyric: An Essay Source: The Lyric: An Essay
“So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.” IfsKindAsksFailingCapacityMoodProseVersesImpressInsignificantImaginative Book:The Lyric: An Essay Source: The Lyric: An Essay
“To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.” PeopleIfsKindMeanGovernmentHighestFunctionDemocraticAnalogiesRealisationDemocratic Government Book:The Lyric: An Essay Source: The Lyric: An Essay
