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There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Source: Essays and Studies, Matthew Arnold's New Poems. In Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 576-77.
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