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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.
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But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. but that's not a reason not to write love poetry. some of the best poetry ever written has been love poetry, and some of the greatest poetry ever written has been political poetry.
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Any single path truly taken leads to all the others. what matters is choosing a starting place - where to stand and begin spinning outward. even then, you will find that outward and inward become the same direction. the center of the wheel is everywhere.
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