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"A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all like, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines."

AUTHOR            E. B. White
KEYWORDS      poem, city, island
GENRE               20th Century Essay


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