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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. – Jorge Luis Borges

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[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets… – Sir William Jones, “On the Philosophy of the Asiaticks” (eleventh anniversary di

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I want to write a book of poetry, as well as childrens stories. – Bobby McFerrin

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The smell of ink is intoxicating to me — others may have wine, but I have poetry. – Terri Guillemets, “Inkdreaming,” 1994

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