"Technique should not be equated with craftsmanship. Technique is
psychological know-how. The technician assumes that poems can be
constructed like explosive missiles and aimed at a given target; he
despises mere craftsmen for their intellectual sloth. Eliot, Pound,
and the later Yeats (still praised by English and American literary
journals as the 'real masters') have technique; Hardy and Frost had
only craftsmanship. Technique ignores the factor of magic;
craftsmanship presupposes it."
-- Robert Graves
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