“He now walks round and round it, so to speak, looking at it from all sides, trying to see which aspect of it is the most vivid.”

Emphasising patient examination before a poem takes its final direction · Statement on poetic craft, in Marguerite Wilkinson, New Voices, 1919

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“But for a poet consciously to appoint himself the mouthpiece of a certain class or creed en masse, is dangerous business.”

Warning against sacrificing individual truth to an assumed representative role · Statement on poetic craft, in Marguerite Wilkinson, New Voices, 1919

• Poetry
• Truth

“In either case, the poem is written to free the poet from an emotional burden.”

Presenting poetry as a means of emotional release · Statement on poetic craft, in Marguerite Wilkinson, New Voices, 1919

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