How poetic you are, she said. I've a notion that poetry is the highest…

Gregory Maguire
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How poetic you are, she said. I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception. ✨ Gregory Maguire (2013). The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz, p.163, Harper Collins
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How poetic you are, she said. I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception. ✨ Gregory Maguire (2013). The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz, p.163, Harper Collins

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