Elif Shafak. Island of Lost Trees (№ 439852)

“But I don’t agree,” Defne muttered into her glass of wine. - There are moments in life when each of us has to be a fighter. The poet's weapon is words, the artist's weapon is pictures... But you can't say: "Excuse me, but I'm a poet, so I pass." You simply have no right to say that when there is so much suffering, inequality, injustice around...