"It is the role of the poet to……" — V. S. Pritchett
"It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening."
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- People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly… — David Attenborough
- You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now. — Lauren Bacall
- The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just… — Amitabh Bachchan
- There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence.… — Michelle Bachelet
- No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for… — James A. Baldwin
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- In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke. — Lynda Barry
- Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP,… — Bob Beauprez
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