"My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme."
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"I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.“
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