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All that I write, whether poetry or music, centers around God.
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The speaker says that God is the central focus of everything they create, whether in poetry or music. Their different forms of expression share the same religious center rather than being separate pursuits with unrelated subjects.
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- Swathi Thirunal website, reproducing a 1963 All India Radio speech
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