"My favourite poem is the one that..." - Quote by Groucho Marx
My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.
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“The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding.”
“The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward. [...] The trees overhead made a great sound of letting down their dry rain.”
“See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.”