Poetry presents the thing in order to convey the feeling. It should be precise about the thing and reticent about the feeling.
—Wei T’ai, (A poet of Sung Dynasty cited in A.C. Graham’s Poems of the Late T’ang), quoted by Charles Reznikoff.
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