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Mare, Walter de la - Extract from Rupert Brooke and the intellectual imagination 04
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From De la Mare, Walter John - Rupert Brooke and the intellectual imagination
…………it cannot be too clearly recognised that the faith of a poet is expressed in all that he writes. He cannot, either as a man or as a poet, live without faith; and never does.
A few lovely words about lovely things is an expression of faith: so, too, is all love, all desire for truth, all happiness. If we have such faith ourselves, if we search close enough, we shall find a poet's faith expressed implicitly throughout his work.