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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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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. – Robert Frost

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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. – Herbert Spencer

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Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly… in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails. – F. L. Lucas

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Poetry is reverie on paper. – Terri Guillemets, “Quiet time with my soul,” 1998

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