A quoted formula Jiang endorses to mean that poets create the language and reality by which the world is ordered, even when that authority is not recognized.
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Unacknowledged legislators of the world
A quoted formula Jiang endorses to mean that poets create the language and reality by which the world is ordered, even when that authority is not recognized.
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"...which is moved not but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, okay? Poets are prophets and their words create our reality."
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