“I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.”
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The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.
But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.
I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.
