Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.


Leigh Hunt: a biography (ed. Archon Books, 1930)


Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.

Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.

Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.

Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.