Life, light, and distance-in poetry-seem to leave on the mind's eye the impression of red, yellow, and blue, radiant less or more according as the life is less or more impassioned, the light celestial, and the space remote. (Alice Meynell)

Life, light, and distance-in poetry-seem to leave on the mind's eye the impression of red, yellow, and blue, radiant less or more according as the life is less or more impassioned, the light celestial, and the space remote.

Alice Meynell

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