The poem, even when it has some predetermined pattern, must be wrought to some effect or finish that justifies the exclamation: This is a poem! (Herbert Read)

The poem, even when it has some predetermined pattern, must be wrought to some effect or finish that justifies the exclamation: This is a poem!

Herbert Read

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