When You Defile The Pleasant

If It Is An Imperfect Word, No External Circumstance Can Heighten Its Value As Poetry.

A Lyric, It Is True, Is The Expression Of Personal Emotion, But Then So Is All Poetry, And To Suppose That There Are Several Kinds Of Poetry, Differing From Each Other In Essence, Is To Be Deceived By Wholly Artificial Divisions Which Have No Real Being.

The Poet's Perfect Expression Is The Token Of A Perfect Experience; What He Says In The Best Possible Way He Has Felt In The Best Possible Way, That Is, Completely.

And Not A Girl Goes Walking Along The Cotswold Lanes But Knows Men's Eyes In April Are Quicker Than Their Brains.

To Take An Analogy: If We Say That A Democratic Government Is The Best Kind Of Government, We Mean That It Most Completely Fulfills The Highest Function Of A Government - The Realisation Of The Will Of The People.