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Poetry contains love and holds it in high esteem, even though love always humiliates it by using it merely as a soothing after-shave lotion.

Kiki Dimoula

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Kiki Dimoula
Died: 2020
Died: February 22
Poet
Writer
Always
Holds
Love
Esteem
Using
Humiliates
Merely
Lotion
Poetry
Shave
High
Humiliate
Though
Soothing
Even
Contains

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