"Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion."

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Source : Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.7, Ardent Media

Amy Lowell

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