"Now verse is more valuable than prose … for the simple reasons that its rhythms are faster and more highly organized than are those of prose, and so lend themselves to a greater complexity and compression of relationship, and that the intensity of this convention renders possible a greater intensity of other desirable conventions, such as poetic language and devices of rhetoric."
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Yvor Winters
Arthur Yvor Winters (October 17, 1900 – January 26, 1968) was an American poet and literary critic.
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