I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
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But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.
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However, in 1950 there might have been 150 books of poetry published in a year. In 1997, there are probably about 1,500.
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They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.
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