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• ‟ Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

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• ‟ Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.

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• ‟ To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

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• ‟ I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

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• ‟ I see poetry as spiritual medicine.

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• ‟ Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'

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• ‟ The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

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