Louis MacNeice quote: I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more' could be abstracted ...

I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more' could be abstracted from the whole, it might well prove to be that which makes the whole a poem.

~ Louis MacNeice ~

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