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'Verse libertines' pioneered the work to get rid of obstacles between that which hampered the poet and separated him from his audience, less a matter of rules and formulae , more a return of spirit.

— Harriet Monroe The New Poetry (1918)

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Poetry, perhaps the finest of fine arts, certainly the shynest and most elusive? ,poetry which must have listeners, which cannot sing into a void.

A book of poems should have almost as many dedications as titles for the poet must always sing for some friend whether the friend knows it or not

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