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Perhaps There Is An Idea Among Japanese Students That One General Difference Between Japanese And Western Poetry Is That The Former Cultivates Short Forms And The Latter Longer Ones, Gut This Is Only In Part True.

I Often Imagine That The Longer He Studies English Literature The More The Japanese Student Must Be Astonished At The Extraordinary Predominance Given To The Passion Of Love Both In Fiction And In Poetry.

The More You Wish To Be, The Wiser You Are; While The Wish To Have Is Apt To Be Foolish In Proportion To Its Largeness.

It Is No Exaggeration To Say That The English Bible Is, Next To Shakespeare, The Greatest Work In English Literature, And That It Will Have Much More Influence Than Even Shakespeare Upon The Written And Spoken Language Of The English Race.

The Shadow-maker Shapes Forever.