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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.

Matthew Arnold
Ideas, World, Illusion
Matthew Arnold (1961). “Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold”, Houghton Mifflin College Division
For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.