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The poet Billy Collins once laughingly observed that all babies are born with a knowledge of poetry, because the lub-dub of the mother’s heart is in iambic meter. Then, Collins said, life slowly starts to choke the poetry out of us. It may be true with music, too.
— From Pearls Before Breakfast, by Gene Weingarten, Washington Post Staff Writer. Sunday, April 8, 2007.
