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Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general, as well as a more powerful, dominion over the passions, than the other art.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgPoetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general, as well as a more powerful, dominion over the passions, than the other art.
Burke asserts that poetry holds a unique and powerful influence over human emotions compared to other art forms.
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