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Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. – Vanessa Redgrave

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[T]he poetic soul… a living lyre, it only lives enough to echo, and all that it has of life it pours out, and spends in song: the inspiring tripod which the poet ascends, at once unites him to, and separates him from, society. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. – Azar Nafisi

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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike

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