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“Poetry is one of the most fugitive arts: it can be assigned to memory, taken and hidden in the mind, smuggled into smoky cabin back rooms, recited there and then conveyed only by speech to another person. It is therefore the most likely to survive colonization.”

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Book:Eavan Boland: A Critical Companion : Poetry, Prose, Interviews, Reviews and Criticism
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