When Rachel Carson accepted the National Book Award, she said, 'if there is poetry in my book about the sea it is not because I deliberately put it there but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out poetry.

Jim Lynch
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This quote is a great explanation for why we write and read about things that we love. We want to be inspired by it. We want to be touched by it. And, as Rachel Carson says, no one can write truthfully about the sea and leave out poetry.

Source: The Highest Tide

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