I fancy all distinctively poetical language ought to be ban… - Roger Fry

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I fancy all distinctively poetical language ought to be banned and the poetry come out of the quality of the idea and the intensity or passion with which it is expressed.

Roger Fry

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Roger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 – 9 September 1936) was an English painter and art critic.

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Alternative Names: Roger Eliot Fry • Roger Elliot Fry

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