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“Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure—pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
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