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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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Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. – Archibald MacLeish

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Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. – Stephen Spender

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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order – poetry = the best words in the best order. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect. – John Barton

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