Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock. ✨ Ralph Waldo Em…

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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.184, University of Missouri Press
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