From verse to voice: Maraylya's Kerryn Valeontis's lifelong love affair with poetry
“Poetry says what cannot be said. It gives expression to the inexpressible. It doesn’t do what it’s told, but it can also be so tender.”

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“Poetry says what cannot be said. It gives expression to the inexpressible. It doesn’t do what it’s told, but it can also be so tender.”
When his godson asked if Lionel could mind his two dachshunds Cally and Frankie while he was away, Lionel hesitated. "Toy dogs?" he scoffed. "What would I do with a pair of useless sausage dogs?"