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Michael Roberts on Communication

1902–1948 England

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The politician manufactures a language - a vocabulary and a rhetoric - which, if you accept it as wholly adequate, leads inevitably to the answers he wants and to the actions he wants. But the prior question is whether the language is adequate to the facts. And as the poet is concerned with making language do new work and finding out the implications of language, his answer is always : no .

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michael Roberts (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.