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Poetry is a way of exploring experience, of understanding what it means to be human.

— Dennis Brutus

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I think only dead people don't change, and even they putrefy so that there is a form of change.

The struggle against apartheid was a struggle for human dignity.

I think the function of the poet is to make people more aware.

The writer cannot escape the realities of the society in which he lives.

I really believe that there is a thing called artistic integrity.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.

T. S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity...but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

George Chapman Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Michael Faraday

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