“If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politic…”

“If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.”

— John F. Kennedy

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Title: Wikiquote: John F. Kennedy
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Remarks at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (14 June 1956); Box 895, Senate Speech Files, John F. Kennedy Papers, Pre-Presidential Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library

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