Poetry not as safe as you'd think... We could get Yeats: "a sterner conscience and a friendlier home" ^1

Seamus Heaney: “A populace that is chloroformed day and night by TV stations like Fox News could do with inoculation by poetry. Obviously, poetry can't be administered like an injection, but it does constitute a boost to the capacity for discrimination and resistance.”
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9927294-a-populace-that-is-chloroformed-day-and-night-by-tv
/HT #JeffreyStClair FB #SeamusHeaney #Yeats #SternerConscience #PoetryVsTV #PoetryVsFoxNews
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https://sacred-texts.com/neu/yeats/lpy/lpy111.htm