I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.A. R. Ammons
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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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
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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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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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