Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. — Quoted

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“Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.”

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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

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I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

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I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.

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A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

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