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What We Can Know by Ian McEwan

"Poetry ... was literature's indispensable form. The spoken or written poem was as old as literature, perhaps, as old as speech, with root in song, in the rhythms of daily life and the body's pulse, in the hunger to catch the passing moment and to glorify love. Poetry, it was said, was the senior service ... it was poets who made the book of life." - Ian McEwan, What We Can Know