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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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Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose. – Azar Nafisi

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Religion
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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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Religion
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Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent. – Azar Nafisi

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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. – Wallace Stevens

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Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. – Walter Scott

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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. – Walter Savage Landor

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Ive read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. – John Barrymore

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