The poem is the point at which our strength gave out. — Quoted

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“The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.”

Richard Rosen · Poetry

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Richard Rosen

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.

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Lascelles Abercrombie

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

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Boris Pasternak

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

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Mark Strand

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

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