“Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.”
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.