“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
“For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.” MenArtSubjectsVariousMoodUnstable Book:The Lyric: An Essay Source: The Lyric: An Essay
