John Drinkwater - A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poe...

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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.

John Drinkwater

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Eine Lyrik ist zwar der Ausdruck persönlicher Emotionen, aber dann auch die gesamte Poesie, und wenn man annimmt, dass es verschiedene Arten von Poesie gibt, die sich im Wesentlichen voneinander unterscheiden, ist dies durch völlig künstliche Trennungen, die keine haben, zu täuschen echtes Sein

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