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But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.

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Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.
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You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these?
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This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet’s destiny is to love.
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