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Lectures on the English Poets · 1818
All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The line calls the memorable part of life its poetry. Read figuratively, that means the qualities that give experience resonance, beauty or emotional force. The sweeping claim values what stays alive in memory beyond a bare record of events, without restricting significance to written verse.
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