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It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.
Ellen Glasgow
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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
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Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.
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