‘A poet’s work’, he answers. ‘To name the unnameable, to point a frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.’ And if rivers of blood flow from the cuts his verses inflict, then they will nourish him. Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses And if my thought-dreams could been seen They’d probably put my head in a guillotine But it’s alright, Ma, it’s life, and life only. Bob Dylan, It’s alright Ma, I’m […]

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