I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't co…

Lucille Clifton
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I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, Ahhh. That was the first poem.
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I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, Ahhh. That was the first poem.

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