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“I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in theresolution of doubts but in their proliferation”
“Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.”
“Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.”
“The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.”
“Nobody reads poetry, we are told at every inopportune moment. I read poetry. I am somebody. I am the people, too. It can be allowed that an industrious quantity of contemporary American poetry is c...”
“If the incision of our words amounts to nothing but a feeling, a slow motion, it will still cut a better swath than the factory model, the corporate model, the penitentiary model, which by my light...”
