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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles,...

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes...

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague...

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry,...

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown,...

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the...

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two...

That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is...

In nature there are few sharp lines.

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the...

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a...

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems I would suggest you do two...

That's a wonderful change that's taken place and so most poetry today is...

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry...

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings to the unknown...

Once every five hundred years or so a summary statement about poetry comes...

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles...

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value though the...

If we ask a vague question such as 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague...

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the...

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion...

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