What is poetry ? A reality of beauty which defies the bondage of words and in part owes its being to responsive echo in the reader's heart; a changling which takes its temper from the passing mood ; a voice which, when once attuned, speaks forth our inmost, deepest, highest thoughts, or merely serves to while away an idle hour. Poetry, therefore, knows no rule ; and yet thero must be some rude canon by which we may be helped to judge, to criticise—to make verse all our own, or to reject it as unworthy of a place in our ideals.—London "Mail."
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2929, 1 August 1911, Page 7
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