"When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble."

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Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

— Alfred North Whitehead