[New-Poetry] As if poetry didn't have enough of a PR problem

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http://www.huntingtonnews.net/columns/090110-kinchen-columnspoetry.html

COMMENTARY: Blago May be Impeached, But He Still Loves His Poetry 
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By David M. Kinchen
Huntingtonnews.net 
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As is his habit, at his latest press conference -- the one on Friday, Jan. 9, 2009, when he responded to his impeachment by the Illinois House of Representatives, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich quoted snippets of poetry. 
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His latest poetic outcry was from a poet I recognized from my days many decades ago as an English major at Northern Illinois University. He quoted the last line of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses": 
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"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." 

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