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"I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world."
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"The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times."
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"I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony."
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"A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be."
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"In the grueling light that passed for day..."
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"And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem."
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"I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream."
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"Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives,When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives,Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain,But never will be sung to us again,Is they remembrance. Now the hour of restHath come to thee. Sleep, darling: it is best."
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"Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler."
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"Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one."
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"Poetry: the best words in the best order."
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"Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them."
Age
"Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it."
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"People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure."
People
"It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic."
Life
"In America nothing dies easier than tradition."
Society
"Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."
Work
"When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools."
People
"Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity."
Society
"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."
Events
"Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down."
Car
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