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A work is called out of the void. Where there was nothing, it remains,—a new creation, part of the treasure of mankind.
A man of genius usually gains a footing with the success of some one effort, and this is not always his greatest.
Hence his theory, clearly fitted to his own limitations, that "a 'long poem' is a flat contradiction in terms."
The impulse of genius is to guard the secrets of its creative hour.
