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[I]t is not health, it is convalescence that is poetical. Just as
[I]t is not health, it is convalescence that is poetical. Just as certain plants only yield all their fragrance to the fingers that crush them, so it is only in a state of suffering that certain affections utter all their poetry. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. – M. H. Abrams

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