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Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes: Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.
         

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.


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