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Quotes from John Gery in Ways of Nothingness: Nuclear Annihilation and Contemporary American Poetry — Richard Wilbur

1921–2017 United States

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The relation between the artist and reality is an oblique one, and indeed there is no good art which is not consciously oblique. If you respect the reality of the world, you know that you can approach that reality only by indirect means.

John Gery in Ways of Nothingness: Nuclear Annihilation and Contemporary American Poetry (1996)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Wilbur (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.