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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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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff. – 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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The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. – Erik Satie

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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into ones soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. – John Keats

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Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that Ive found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other. – Marilyn Hacker

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The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. – Paul Muldoon

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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. – James A. Baldwin

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Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. – Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

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