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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist
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"The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion."

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Jack London Novelist, Journalist
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"Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes."

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