Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth — the true poet is very near the oracle. Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Quotes November 23, 2008

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth — the true poet is very near the oracle.
Poetry and Poets
Quotations by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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