Alice Oswald quote — “I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but …”

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I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It questions the established order of the mind. It is radical, by which I don't mean that it is either leftwing or rightwing, but that it works at the roots of thinking.

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John Stamos

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Alan Menken

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Holly Hunter