Nadir Shah

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“In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year’s end to the next is what appears on greetings cards, it is well for us to stop and consider our poets.... Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.”
—Elizabeth Janeway (b. 1913)

“Varis Shah says habits don’t die even if we are cut into pieces.”
—Varis Shah (18th cent.)