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It's not that he lacked poetry. but his poetry was of the body, not the mind. he spoke it in the way he moved, the way he held a hammer, rowed a boat, built a fire. i, on the other hand, was like a brain in a box, a beating heart in a coal scuttle.
-Meg Rosoff
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It's Not That He Lacked Poetry. But

Meg Rosoff
It's not that he lacked poetry. but his poetry was of the body, not the mind. he spoke it in the way he moved, the way he held a hammer, rowed a boat, built a fire. i, on the other hand, was like a brain in a box, a beating heart in a coal scuttle.
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