Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
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Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations. While the poet’s imagination is cast by our streetlight imaginations, it is the streetlight that illuminates the poet’s imagination.

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