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“Metaphors make connections which are not contained in the fabric of reality but created, by our own associative powers. The important question about a metaphor is not what property it stands for, but what experience it suggests.”

- Sir Roger Scruton, On Beauty

In our post-romantic society, we think of the poet as someone who talks about his or her feelin…

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