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> [At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can't. There's a little bit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-morrison/at-times-of-crisis-or-distress-it-s-poems-that-people-turn-to-poetry/)

[Blake Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-morrison/)

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## More by Blake Morrison

> [Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-morrison/editing-might-be-a-bloody-trade-but-knives-aren-t-the-exclusive/)

[Blake Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-morrison/)

> [“You can possess a book without really owning it, though. Beyond ownership in a commercial or legal sense, there’s ownership of an emotional or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-morrison/you-can-possess-a-book-without-really-owning-it-though-beyond/)

[Blake Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-morrison/)

> [At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-morrison/at-times-of-crisis-or-distress-it-s-poems-that-people-turn-to-poetry/)

[Blake Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-morrison/)

> [The selective memory isn't selective enough.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-morrison/the-selective-memory-isn-t-selective-enough/)

[Blake Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-morrison/)

> [A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books - the best books - give us: a lifeline, a reason…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-morrison/a-hope-of-something-beyond-our-place-and-time-this-is-what-books-the/)

[Blake Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-morrison/)

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