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Poets don’t convince.

They don’t conquer.
Their role is another, far from power: to be contrast.

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The main component of all authoritarianisms is the inflation of the ego.

Totalitarianism warns you: if you dissent, you’re an enemy, in other words, something to be exterminated. Democracy tells you: think however you’d like.

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I know
that if I don’t become no one
I will have wasted my life.

--rafael cadenas [translated by guillermo parra]