“For only the shadow is true” Robert Penn Warren

From “A Backward Glance” by Walt Whitman
“And it must be carefully remember’d that first-class literature does not shine by any luminosity of its own; nor do its poems. They are grown of circumstances, and are evolutionary. The actual living light is always curiously from elsewhere–follows unaccountable sources, and is lunar and relative at the best.”
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