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Why Poetry
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The usefulness of poetry has less to do with delivering messages (which we can just as easily get from prose), and far more to do with what poems can do to our language, reenlivening and reactivating it, and thereby drawing us into a
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“The laws vainly try to talk virtue to the mass, but it's just talk. The people who make the laws are really too biased towards evil and never carry out their fine talk -- they merely make a stab at it for the sake of appearances, that's all.”
― Justine
― Justine
“Worry is a thief, Fear is a liar, and Anxiety is their trembling, furrow-browed baby.”
― Grace for the Good Girl: Letting Go of the Try-Hard Life
― Grace for the Good Girl: Letting Go of the Try-Hard Life
“Yes, I think bitterly, that's how it is with us, and with all poor people. They don't dare to ask the price, but worry themselves dreadfully beforehand about it; but the others, for whom it is not important, they settle the price first as a matter of course.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
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