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Thomas Hardy

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

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Thomas Hardy means that poetry starts with genuine feelings that arise naturally within a person. However, shaping those feelings into a structured form, like rhythm or rhyme, is a skill that can be learned through practice and technique.

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