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SOME SUGGESTIONS ABOUT BAD POETRY
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sight, wherever and whenever they find it, and at whatever mortifying cost—for in the process we may have to condemn words once dear to our hearts. To recognize and to disown it with all our strength. The sturdiest blows that average people can strike in the cause of good are often only negative, but they are not to be despised.

Edith Sichel.