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“Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.”
“In the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.”
“Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.”
“Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.”
“Poetry is what is gained in translation.”
“By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan. In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential. For what distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom is precisely the gift of speech. Poetry is not a form of…
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By the Mighty Mumford 