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Lisa Alther: Poets are the...

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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by Abby Adams, 1989.
-- Lisa Alther, (?? 1944-____), US novelist; Her first novel Kinflicks was one of those rare books that crystallizes the spirit and mood of a generation (50s, 60s & 70s).


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