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“To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know.”
William S. Burroughs“In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of the facts round about, and to deify them, as it were, to provide images that relate the everyday to the eternal.”
Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation