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— June Jordan"The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think"
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It is a function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them into some new form. Britten's Nocturne, for example, which unifies musically a group of poems by different hands, is a notable example of his power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
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