For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood, That scarlet tree within, which has the power To make dull words bud forth and burst in flower. (Osbert Sitwell)

For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood, That scarlet tree within, which has the power To make dull words bud forth and burst in flower.

Osbert Sitwell

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