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Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man it has become the amusement and delight of the few. – John Masefield

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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. – John Masefield

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