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Maybe it is something to do with age, but i have become fonder of poetry than of prose.
-Aung San Suu Kyi
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Aung San Suu Kyi
Maybe it is something to do with age, but i have become fonder of poetry than of prose.
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Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations can produce good prose. so don't think of poetry as a perverse and unnatural way of distorting ordinary prose statements: prose is a much less natural way of speaking than poetry is. if you listen to small children, and to the amount of chanting and singsong in their speech, you'll see what i mean.
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