Poetry · Reflection
SOMERSET MAUGHAM ~ ON POETRY
6 July 2011
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
~W. Somerset Maugham
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