"The politician manufactures a language - a vocabulary and a rhetoric - which, if you accept it as wholly adequate, leads inevitably to the answers he wants and to the actions he wants. But the prior question is whether the language is adequate to the facts. And as the poet is concerned with making language do new work and finding out the implications of language, his answer is always : no ."
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In Laura Riding (ed,) The World and Ourselves (Epilogue) 1938. Also quoted in Valentine Cunningham (ed.) Spanish Front: Writers on the Civil War (1986).
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Michael Roberts (writer)
Michael William Edward Roberts (December 6, 1902 – December 13, 1948) was an English poet, writer, critic and broadcaster, who made his living as a teacher.
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