I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, ex

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know thats not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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