Quotes From Writers + Poets

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  ‘They will tell you that to be political is to be merely angry, and therefore artless, depthless, raw, and empty.’

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  ‘I don’t believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.’

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  ‘All struggles are essentially power struggles.’

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  ‘Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.’

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  ‘The only recognizable feature of hope is action.’

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  ‘In a time of destruction, create something.’

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  ‘If prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it.’

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  ‘Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.’

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  ‘Censorship is the mother of metaphor.’

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  ‘The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.’

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  ‘The function of freedom is to free somebody else.’

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  ‘I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.’

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  ‘The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.’

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  ‘People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.’

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  ‘Lying is done with words and also with silence.’

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  ‘We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings.’

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  ‘A dead man in Spain is more alive when dead than anywhere else on earth.’

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  ‘A poet’s work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it from going to sleep.’

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  ‘Be regular and orderly in your life, like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.’

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  ‘Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously.’

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  ‘The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.’

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  ‘Race is the child of racism, not the father.’

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  ‘Culture does not make people. People make culture.’

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  ‘Grace to be born and live as variously as possible.’

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  ‘The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.’

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