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Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.... A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually—that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too— but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.

Muriel Rukeyser

Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980), U.S. poet. The Life of Poetry, ch. 1 (1949).

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