Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.A. R. Ammons
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
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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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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
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