Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is …

Virginia Woolf
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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). The Common Reader, p.61, Lulu Press, Inc
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