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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. – Muhammad Iqbal

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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. – T. S. Eliot

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