The grand power of poetry is its interpretative power... not a power of drawing out in black and white an explanation of the mystery of the universe, but the power of so dealing with things as to awaken in us a wonderfully full, new, and intimate sense of them and of our relations with them. When this sense is awakened in us, as to objects without us, we feel ourselves to be in contact with the essential nature of those objects...
from Matthew Arnold in Maurice de Guerin (Lectures and Essays in Criticism)
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