I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet’s, the writer’s, duty is to write about these things.
Source:Speech at the Nobel Prize Banquet after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature (December 10, 1950)
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