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Barack Obama: “We've turned to poetry when we can't find quite the right words to express what we're feeling.”

On the recordMay 10, 2011
We've turned to poetry when we can't find quite the right words to express what we're feeling.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at a White House Event Celebrating Poetry

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