We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.
If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.
Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.
I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.
There is nothing settled about a poet's identity. The becoming doesn't stop because the being has been achieved. They proceed together, attached in ways that are hard to be exact about.
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
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