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You ought to write for the ordinary person: for the man who drives a bus... If you can write poetry which makes sense to those people, then there is some justification for writing.

— 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.

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

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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.

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