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Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.

— Robert Bridges

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Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee,
With promise of strength and manhood full and fair!

Why hast thou nothing in thy face?
Thou idol of the human race,
Thou tyrant of the human heart,
The flower of lovely youth that art.

Angels’ song, comforting
as the comfort of Christ
When he spake tenderly
to his sorrowful flock.

We should not in the field of Reason look to find
less vary and veer than elsewhere in the flux of Life.

The Testament of Beauty (1929)

My delight and thy delight
Walking, like two angels white,
In the gardens of the night.

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I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Michael Faraday

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