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I often say, and it is not a joke, that poetry is not incompatible with prosperity,”

— Louise Mushikiwabo

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"I love what I do, and this is a good time for our organisation.”

Rwanda is in the unique position of having temporary stewardship of arguably both the most influential English and French speaking organization in the world.

I think that sentiment of ambition and moving forward has to do with the thirst to live to the fullest.

Anti-French sentiment, increasingly visible in Africa, is a sign of the times.

"It is a transversal dimension of all our actions for the years to come.”

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)

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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