poetical quotes

In the case of Smith, the name is so poetical that it must be anarduous and heroic matter for themanto live up to it† The name shouts poetryat you.

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
  Heretics, ch.3.

A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.

The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

-Whitman,Walt(er)
  Leaves of Grass, preface.

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