“Technique without inspiration, is barren.”

—  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Context: Technique without inspiration, is barren. Intellectual powers, sense facts and imaginative fancies may result in clever verses, repetition of old themes, but they are only manufactured poetry. It is not simply a difference of quality but a difference of kind in the source itself.

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