Michael OndaatjeMen had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.
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Men, who lived in the desert, had always been the reciters of poetry. For them poetry was not just words on paper but it was the way of life. They got inspired by each other’s poetry and showed their emotions through their writings. Sometimes they could not say their opinion through words but they could do so by writing poems. As the saying goes, “passion is written in poems”, which means that if you are passionate for something, you will write poems about it.
Source: The English Patient
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