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There is but one poetry,--true poetry.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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There Is But One Poetry,--true Poetry.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
There is but one poetry,--true poetry.
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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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