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As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend

As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend ones language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence. – W. H. Auden

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. – Voltaire

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Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. – Joshua Logan

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Poets touch forcibly and truly that invisible lyre which echoes in unison in all human souls. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847), paraphrase

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