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"It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge"

- Brooks Atkinson

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This quote is written / told by Brooks Atkinson between November 28, 1894 and January 14, 1984. He/she was a famous Critic from USA. The author also have 9 other quotes.

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