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Exploration Quotes

I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide (1-3)

Education Quotes

I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light (1-2)

Art and Culture Quotes

or press an ear against its hive. (4)

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I ask them to […] (1)

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