Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
Russell Baker
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I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on. -
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The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
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