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The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity. – George Oppen

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Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity. – George Oppen

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It is the hour to be drunken! Be drunken, if you would not be martyred slaves of Time; be drunken continually! With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. – Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), “Be Drunken,” translated from French by Arthur

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I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. – Diane Wakoski

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The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness. – Muriel Rukeyser

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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. – Bertrand Russell

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