The closer a poet is to the subject he elegizes, the more we expect him to respond in ways that aren’t “poetic” but it takes craft to make a poem seem uncrafted, and it takes words to show how short our words can fall.
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The closer a poet is to the subject he elegizes, the more we expect him to respond in ways that aren’t “poetic” but it takes craft to make a poem seem uncrafted, and it takes words to show how short our words can fall.
Source: wiktionary
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