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Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), The Art-Principle as Represented in Poetry, p.182
“Made poetry a mere mechanic art.”
Source: Table Talk (1782), Line 654.
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