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John Cage on Poetry

1912–1992 United States

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I have nothing to say/ and I am saying it/ and that is poetry/ as I need it.

Lecture on Nothing (1949)

Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not possess it) and thus need not fear its loss.

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