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"I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time."

Robert Hass, American Poet

Time, Poetry, Idea, Job

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"I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time."

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"I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time."

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