Ellen Glasgow Quote

It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: — that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.


Letters of Ellen Glasgow (1958)


It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: — that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of...

It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: — that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of...

It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: — that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of...

It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: — that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of...