"A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction."

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"A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction."

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"I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change."

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"If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'"

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"Only silence perfects silence."

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"Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience."

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"Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone."

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