"It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn."
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"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.“
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