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Poets speak truth when no one else can or will. That's why the hunger for poetry grows when the world grows dark. When repression grows, when people speak in whispers or not at all, they turn to poetry to find out what's going on.
Diane di Prima, American poet, playwright and activist (quote from The Poetry Deal)
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