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Richard Weaver on Poetry

1910–1963 United States

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Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind.

Language is Sermonic (1970)

All of us have had the experience of finding a particularly felicitous phrase in poetry and of feeling: “This is what the world really means; he has hit it closer than anyone has ever hit it before.”

Language is Sermonic (1970)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Weaver (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.