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Quote by Sitor Situmorang
A Poet and Poetry form a certain concept of culture, while a person continues to live as a private individual.
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The sentence separates poetry’s public cultural meaning from a person’s private life. “A Poet and Poetry” represent a way of understanding culture, while the individual still lives outside that public idea as a private person. It points to a difference between a cultural role and ordinary personal existence.
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