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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A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.A. R. Ammons
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
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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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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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