"Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.“


-Jacques Maritain

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Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

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