What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought!
...Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies
the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks,
then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid
flash.
- Letter to William Dean Howells, 25 February 1906
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