Quote by Salman Rushdie
A poets work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to tak

A poets work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. – Salman Rushdie

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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. – Salman Rushdie

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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up. – Salman Rushdie

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry. – Salman Rushdie

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Poetry is the energy of the soul made ink. – Terri Guillemets, “Lust & creativity,” 1995

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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses. – Vicente Aleixandre

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What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed? – W.H. Auden

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