The question of originality, if it arises at all, can never be peripheral: originality is more than a requirement in good poetry, it is a description of it. (Clive James)

The question of originality, if it arises at all, can never be peripheral: originality is more than a requirement in good poetry, it is a description of it.

Clive James

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