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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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A Definition Of Poetry Can Only Determine

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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