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One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.

E. Nesbit
Sleep, Night, Poetry
E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.1027, Delphi Classics
One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.