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Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

The written word is everything.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

When you defile the pleasant streams,
And the wild bird's abiding place,
You massacre a million dreams,
And cast your spittle in God's face

This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.

And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains.

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.