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I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

Adrienne Rich
Thinking, Health Education, Poetry
Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company
I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.