“The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.”
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.
