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Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man it has become the amusement and delight of the few. – John Masefield

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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. – John Masefield

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And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious. – John C. Ransom

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Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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