"when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry."

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The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree. ... in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous.

— Anne O'Hare McCormick