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James Schuyler Quotes: However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
         

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.


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A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.



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It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing



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