Finally, no particular line is valuable except inasmuch as it performs a dramatic function in relationship to other lines in a particular poem: one kind of line ending becomes powerful because of its relationship to other kinds of line endings.
—James Longenbach, The Art of the Poetic Line (Graywolf 2008)
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6.15.2008
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