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  • The last bear, shot drinking in the Dakotas Loped under wires that span the mountain stream. Keen instruments, strung to a vast precision Bind town to town and dream to ticking dream.

    - (Harold) Hart Crane
      The Bridge,'The River'.

  • Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtletyand precision unapproachable by any other means.

    - F(rank) R(aymond) Leavis
      New Bearings in English Poetry, ch.2.

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