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The poetry, the culture itself, exists not in a dictionary but in the tradition of the spoken word.
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The quote says that poetry and culture are more than the words recorded in a dictionary. Their real life is found in the spoken tradition: how people pass words, stories, and meaning from one person to another. Written definitions can describe language, but they do not fully contain the living practice of speaking it.
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