I define "politics” in this sense as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create-not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions. There is no way I can see that the poet can stand outside all that. (Adrienne Rich)

I define "politics” in this sense as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create-not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions. There is no way I can see that the poet can stand outside all that.

Adrienne Rich

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