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“ a poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his thoughts however common place they may be, exquisitely. That is the one and only difference between the poet and everybody else.”

Ah, how I have needed another fun-fact book by Mark for my bathtub reads 👏😂