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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. – Basil Bunting

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But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots. – Basil Bunting

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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. – Denis Diderot

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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. – Chinua Achebe

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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. – Rita Dove

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You dont help people in your poems. Ive been trying to help people all my life – thats my trouble. – Charles Olson

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