"The functions of the poetical faculty are two-fold; by one it creates new
materials of knowledge and power and pleasure; by the other it engenders
in the mind a desire to reproduce and arrange them according to a certain
rhythm and order which may be called the beautiful and the good. The
cultivation of poetry is never more to be desired than at periods when,
from an excess of the selfish and calculating principle, the accumulation
of the materials of external life exceed the quantity of the power of
assimilating them to the internal laws of human nature. The body has then
become too unwieldy for that which animates it."
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