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Keorapetse Willie Kgositsile

Kgositsile is South Africa's National
Poet Laureate as well as an Advisor to the Minister
of Arts & Culture in the South African government.

photo: Sihpiwo Mahala

In African Writing:

A Brief Word on Poetry 11 (Ideas)

No poet creates from nothing. In every culture there is tradition which informs, influences, guides, and inspires the development of artistic expression. The very language that any poet uses was there before that poet was born; it is a product of a people’s collective genius. It achieves the heights and depths of its expressiveness in poetry.

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Keorapetse Willy Kgositsile

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