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- Forty Years
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men expect too much, do too little.
- Knowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
- Detachment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.
- Horizon
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- Nov 07, 2020
For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.
- Doctors
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- Nov 07, 2020
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Spring I seek is in a new face only.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020