We can see poetry in the mass, remarks “John o’ London,” and then we can talk of it in terms of periods, schools, influences, “isms” and what not. But under its spell all this becomes academical poppycock. A great verse of poetry is as instant as the lightning, as lone as the thunder.
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Southland Times, Issue 24227, 10 September 1940, Page 3
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53Untitled Southland Times, Issue 24227, 10 September 1940, Page 3
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