"Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art; there is a lack of sincerity, of irresistible impulse in both the poet and the, composer."

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Source : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”

Edmund Clarence Stedman

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