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America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it los

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? – Azar Nafisi

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Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Maos China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup. – Azar Nafisi

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You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesnt exist. – Azar Nafisi

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When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star – it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned. – Azar Nafisi

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I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies. – Boris Pasternak

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And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious. – John C. Ransom

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[I]t is not health, it is convalescence that is poetical. Just as certain plants only yield all their fragrance to the fingers that crush them, so it is only in a state of suffering that certain affections utter all their poetry. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine. – Jack Prelutsky

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