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Quotes from Primitivism and Decadence : A Study of American Experimental Poetry — Yvor Winters

d. 1968 United States

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It will be seen that what I desire of a poem is a clear understanding of motive, and a just evaluation of feeling; the justice of the evaluation persisting even into the sound of the least important syllable. Such a poem is a perfect and complete act of the spirit; it calls upon the full life of the spirit; it is difficult of attainment, but I am aware of no good reason to be contented with less.

Primitivism and Decadence : A Study of American Experimental Poetry (1937)

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