Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into an idea, then into more tangible action. 
POEM
Try to Praise the Mutilated World
By Adam Zagajewski
Though the world is full of suffering, we can remember its beauty, and praise it.
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