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“Tagalog, Sugbuanon, Hiligaynon, Warai, Iloco, Bicol, etc.—they are as much Filipino as that evolving Tagalog-based Filipino that we hope would eventually, through great writing from it, become truly our national language.”

— 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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