![reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty places at once - hit, roused, scraped, bared, swung through the air, so that life seems to flash by; then again blinded, knocked on the head - all of which are agreeable sensations for a reader (since nothing is more dismal than to open the door and get no response) ...](/assets/img/quote-photos/reading-poetry-you-know-is-rather-like-opening-the-door-to-a-horde-of-rebels.jpg)
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