If It Is An Imperfect Word, No

We Recognise In The Finished Art, Which Is The Result Of These Conditions, The Best Words In The Best Order - Poetry; And To Put This Essential Poetry Into Different Classes Is Impossible.

If It Is An Imperfect Word, No External Circumstance Can Heighten Its Value As Poetry.

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.

Great Men Are Rare, Poets Are Rarer, But The Great Man Who Is A Poet, Transfiguring His Greatness, Is The Rarest Of All Events.

When The Poet Makes His Perfect Selection Of A Word, He Is Endowing The Word With Life.