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

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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."

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"My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport."

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"Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment."

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