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How poet and public stared at each other with righteous indignation, till the poet said, “Since you won’t read me, I’ll make sure you can’t” — is one of the most complicated and interesting of stories.

— Randall Jarrell Poetry and the Age (1953)

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One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world.

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The people who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

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Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.

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The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.

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If we judge by wealth and power, our times are the best of times; if the times have made us willing to judge by wealth and power, they are the worst of times.

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