If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. (Muriel Rukeyser)

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Muriel Rukeyser

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