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Isaac Bashevis Singer on Poetry

1902–1991 Poland

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Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet — whom Plato banned from his Republic — may rise up to save us all.

Nobel lecture (1978)

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