Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance that has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.


Quoted in The Burden of the Past and the English Poet (1970) by Walter Jackson Bate.


Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance...

Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance...

Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance...

Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance...