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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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I dont like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. – Anne Stevenson

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