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Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

Erica Jong

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Poesie ist die Sprache, die wir in den schrecklichsten oder ekstatischsten Passagen unseres Lebens sprechen. Aber schon die Wortpoesie macht den Menschen Angst. Sie denken an ihre Grundschullehrer, die 'Hiawatha' rezitieren, und sie stöhnen.

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