Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.A. R. Ammons
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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