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“The world is full of people who have lost faith: politicians who have lost faith in politics, social workers who have lost faith in social work, schoolteachers who have lost faith in teaching and, for all I know, policemen who have lost faith in policing and poets who have lost faith in poetry. It's a condition of faith that it gets lost from time to time, or at least mislaid.”

People Knows World Faith Lost Social Teaching Conditions Poet Politician Workers Social Work Policemen Social Worker Lost Faith

Book:A Taste for Death

Source: A Taste for Death

“It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.”

Facts Left Poet Six Twenties Workers Ironic Detroit

Author:Philip Levine

“I thought that perhaps the most creative mix for a society would be nine parts solid worker from institutions like MIT to one part poet from Marrakech, but in spite of the fact that I myself had been trained to be one of the solid workers, which meant that all of my sympathies lay with that group, I would not surrender the poet. The problem was to find him.”

Facts Problem Would Be Creative Groups Poet Institutions Lays Workers Surrender Nine Spite My Sympathy Mit Marrakech

Author:James A. Michener

“Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.”

Persons Has Beens Artist Black Generations Poet Workers Inspired Muse Playwright

Author:Manning Marable

“Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.”

Language Creation Poet Communication Ought Workers English Language Joints Manuals

Book:The complete works of George Orwell

Source: The complete works of George Orwell