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However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
James Schuyler
James Schuyler
Born: Nov 9, 1923
Died: Apr 12, 1991

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Poem, Poetry, Prose, Reduced, However, Sentence, Much

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