But for Mr Fry's reality, it is probably true that only poetry would do.

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This is significant for American conservatives because if Nietzsche is right, the only poetry that can lead Europe away from endless refragmentation is that of a fearsome but captivating Napoleonic return.

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It was the only instrument and the only poetry that described the way I felt when I was five and when I was six and when my Dad told me about growing up in New Jersey and what it was like to see Bruce on the boardwalk and make out with girls on the beach.

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Tolkien's poetry enriches and complements not only the plot of the story but the development of his fictional world.

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In 1991 Dana Gioia, a poet (and former marketing manager for General Foods), set off a fierce debate in American poetry circles with an attack on American academia for turning poetry into a smug, producer-driven lobby, concerned only with its own survival and indifferent to the fact that it had alienated a wider audience.

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He made it as fashionable as philosophy and poetry, both of which he wove through his ethnographical studies as perhaps only French intellectuals can.

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Meanwhile, the space itself, with its bricks and mortar, beams and open doorways, persists patiently, only ever truly revealed in these in-between moments, when an artist can expose its poetry, before ordinary human use once more renders it banal.

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Not only could they add and subtract up to 20, but many could recite Tang and Song dynasty poetry.

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