“Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because in so doing it imitates the natural utterances of excitement.”

— Herbert Spencer

Pt. I, sec. 6, "The Effect of Poetry Explained"
The Philosophy of Style (1852)

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