There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. - John Ashbery

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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. - Eckhart Tolle quotes