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Poetry makes us more observant, more compassionate, empathetic. [It] is our best means of communicating with each other, of touching not only the intellect but the heart. [It] is the best repository for our most humane, ethical and just feelings. We can be made to experience the world, interior lives of other human beings, by reading poetry. (Mary Loftus, “Her Calling,” Emory Magazine, Autumn 2012, 25)
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Kirk Byron Jones (Fulfilled: Living and Leading with Unusual Wisdom, Peace, and Joy)