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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] feeds on the purest substance of the sentiments of the soul. It quenches its thirst with a nectar that has no dregs. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. – Percy Shelley, A Defence of Poetry, 1821

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A poets autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry. – Mark Knopfler

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