Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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