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Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.

Max Beerbohm
Song, Philosophy, Humanity
Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.44, New York Review of Books
Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.