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UNICEF celebrates World Poetry Day annually with themes like 'environment' and 'Standing on the shoulders of giants'. Poetry ...

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Patience is a virtue” is thought to have originated from a poem written by an English poet, William Langland. It makes me ...

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There are things we know and cannot say, that cannot be organized into component words, which might be parsed and sorted and ...