A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is. (Jeanette Winterson)

A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is.

Jeanette Winterson

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