"The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving."
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Quoted in Louis Untermeyer, Modern British Poetry (Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920)
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James Elroy Flecker
James Elroy Flecker (November 5 1884 β January 3 1915) was an English poet, novelist and playwright. As a poet he was most influenced by the Parnassian poets.
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