"Sciences .. are based on a single logical meaning of the sentence or of the word. ... On the contrary, poetry tries for as many possible meanings and interactions between words and thoughts as it can."
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Miroslav Holub
Miroslav Holub (13 September 1923 – 14 July 1998) was a Czech poet and immunologist.
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