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The fact that you can write verse is in itself a certificate that you can write prose.

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Vachel Lindsay

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Born: November 10, 1879
Died: December 5, 1931 (aged 52)
Bio: Nicholas Vachel Lindsay was an American poet. He is considered a founder of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted.
Known for:
  1. Art of the moving picture .. (1915)
  2. Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
  3. The Golden Book of Springfield
  4. The Chinese Nightingale (1915)
  5. A Handy Guide For Beggars
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