I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the i… — Quoted

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“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.”

Robert Hass · Poetry

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Gyorgy Ligeti

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

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Denis Diderot

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

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James Laughlin

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.

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John Barton

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

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