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Joseph Joubert

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Poetry

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Poetry depends on the reader's imagination and feelings to come alive, rather than existing as something fixed in the world. Without your own sense of wonder or insight, the experience of poetry cannot truly happen.

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