“Cultures with richer vocabularies are more fully human …than those with poorer ones; individual men and women are more fully human when their memories are amply stocked with verses.” Old men often regret having neglected poetry & music. Darwin did too. https://t.co/qaiq1qlwop
— Phil Oliver (@OSOPHER) February 10, 2022
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Thursday, February 10, 2022
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I've always thought that poetry was underrated. I'm constantly buying poetry books and it was exciting when they started getting more popular.
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