I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.
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It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.Mark Strand
Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.
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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
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Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
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I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.
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Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.
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