Frank Chipasula Quotes

Frank Mkalawile Chipasula is a Malawian writer, editor and university professor, "easily one of the best of the known writers in the discourse of Malawian letters". Wikipedia  

✵ 16. October 1949
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Frank Chipasula Quotes

“I will not coat my words in lumps of sugar
I will serve them to our people with the bitter quinine.”

"Manifeston On Ars Poetica," lines 20-21.
Visions and Reflections (1972)

“My poetry is exacting a confession
from me: I will not keep the truth
from my song and the heartstringed instrument.”

"Manifeston On Ars Poetica," lines 1-3.
Visions and Reflections (1972)

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