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In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year's end to the next is what appears on greetings cards, it is well for us to stop and consider our poets. . . . Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.
Source: In The Writer's Book, ch. 30, ed. by Helen Hull, 1950.-- Elizabeth Janeway, (Oct 7 1913-2005), US writer; Her writings include Powers of the Weak, 1980 and Cross Sections: From a Decade of Change, 1982.
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