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No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.

"'Drunks talk trash, don't they?'". Interview with William Leith, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2008.
No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.