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Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.

Conrad Aiken
Done, Glorify, Knows
"Conrad Aiken, The Art of Poetry No. 9". Interview with Robert Hunter Wilbur in September 1963, "The Paris Review", www.theparisreview.org. Winter - Spring 1968.
Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.