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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Ken Burns's latest on The Greatest

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Poetry Is the Closest Writing Gets to Music

" ali influences you in ways you don't even necessarily think about," he says. "He leads by an example that is difficult to perceive exactly how he touches you." But every one of us has been touched by him or he has put a smile on our faces, the poet adds. The imagery of it is just, it's mythological,. And that's why the poetry means something.

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