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“Greek poiein, ‘to make,’ yields the English word ‘poem’; hence, poem is a generic term for all kinds of literary work, poetry for imaginative literature, and the poet, a figure for all writers as literary artists.”

— Gémino H. Abad

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“To write, then, is to get real, to breathe life into language.”

"Poetry is the most human of arts, for it is language itself that makes us human.”

"Man is the only being among other beings on earth that seeks truth in knowledge.”

“Every reader apprehends that meaningfulness or diwa in light of his own life experience, in his own historical time and cultural space.”

"Truth-seeking, then, is his being or essence as human.”

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