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Quotes › Authors › R › Ralph Waldo Emerson › For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument
  • For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson: For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    1844 Essays: Second Series,'The Poet'.
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