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A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

– Cecil Day-Lewis –

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