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NUMBER:54096
QUOTATION:Poetry ... is ... a speaking picture, with this end: to teach and delight.
ATTRIBUTION:Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586), British poet, diplomat, soldier. An Apology for Poetry (written 1579-1580, published 1595), ed. J. Churton Collins (1907).
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