A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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