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Poetry · Reflection
THOMAS HARDY ~ ON POETRY
31 January 2014
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Thomas Hardy, 1840-1928
British novelist and poet, note written in 1899
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Thomas Hardy by William Strang, 1893
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