Edith Sitwell | poetry
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Andrew Motion | poetry
While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of ‘difficult’ poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there’s room for ‘difficult’ poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won’t be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.
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Jane Campion | poetry
As for how criticism of Keats’ poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I’ll leave that for others to decide.
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James Gates Percival | poetry
The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.
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Brooks Atkinson | poetry
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
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Howard Nemerov | poetry
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.
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