To know anything of a poet but his poetry is so far as the poetry is concerned to know something that may be entertaining even delightful but is certainly inessential.
The musician – if he be a good one – finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.
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We recognise in the finished art which is the result of these conditions the best words in the best order – poetry and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.
