Wordsworth’s “Ode to Immortality” is manufactured with the very same tools we employ when we order the dinner.
—Amy Lowell, from Poetry and Poets: Essays by Amy Lowell
A “metabeautiful” sentence. Such a crystal-compact sentence that combines the ideas of the highest of beauty and the most commonplace all in only eighteen words.
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