Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
