(criticism) Frost as a Critical Theorist(1973) - Elaine Barry
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My theory was out of my practice.
It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same
as for love. No one can really hold that the ecstasy should be
static and stand still in one place. It begins in delight, it inclines
to the impulse, it assumes direction with the first line laid down,
it runs a course of lucky events, and ends in a clarification of life - not
necessarilv a great clarification, such as sects and cults are
founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
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