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All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855). “The Works: Kavanagh. Outre-Mer”, p.69
All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.