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— James Fenton"Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral."
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The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people — eternal life.
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