The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic.


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The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with...

The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with...

The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with...

The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with...