Arts & Sciences
A Caution to Poets
From Lyric Poems
Arts & Sciences
What poets feel not, when they make,
A pleasure in creating,
The world, in its turn, will not take
Pleasure in contemplating.
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Codex Note
Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Macmillan, 1891)
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Arnold, Matthew. “A Caution to Poets.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/arnold/84/.
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Arnold, Matthew. “A Caution to Poets.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/arnold/84/.
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