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Tadeusz Dąbrowski on stage at the Shakespeare Theatre in Gdansk, Poland.

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Poetry has a romantic aura to it ... They used spinning objects as metaphors for confused thoughts. Because, yes, lyricists use the same linguistic devices as poets. An excellent example of the use of ...