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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

M. H. Abrams
Mean, Poetry, Body
"Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)". Interview with Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.