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"Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the strength of the labour put into the creation of the poetry."
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Source: Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.119, New Directions Publishing
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